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I heard somewhere that if a External Hard Drive is formated exFat on a Mac, it wont work on Windows, unless it is Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) or 10.8 (Mountain Lion). I have Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and I wanted to know if I format my External HD for exFat will it work on Windows? I currently have is formatted as Fat32 but there is a 4GB limit so I wanted to try exFat.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have seen different cases, but I think you are right on most of the cases. You have to format the external disk on Windows to make sure it will work on OS X and Windows
Kurt, what is your reference for saying that MS has dropped development for exFAT? I have been searching Google for a refrence to this and I cannot find anything.
exFAt on Mac OS X 10.6.8
