I bought Seagate 2Tb slim HHD and formatted it for Time Machine Backup. If connected to "Windows", I can't access any data. In fact i can't see Data in my HDD at all.
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Install software such as MacDrive on the PC, or make the drive available over a network. It isn't otherwise possible for Windows to read a volume formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled); Time Machine requires that format.
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Ok. Will try. Thanks.
Format the HDD as ExFat. OSX and Windows can read/write ExFat formatted drives. But as already stated, Time Machine can't use ExFat formatted drives.
What BobTheFisherman said is true. I'm not entirely sure, but there has to be some third-party Mac backup application that CAN actually backup to exFAT formatted drives.
Back up any data you can from the HDD.
On your Mac, use Disk Utility and create 2 ea. 1 TB partitions. Choose MBR ( Master Boot Record ) as the Partition Table. Format one of the Partitions as MS-DOS name it whatever you like. Format the other Partition as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Boot up Windows and plug in your drive. Go to "My Computer" or "This PC" and format the MS-DOS partition as NTFS. Simple. Now you will have the Mac partition for OS X and NTFS partition for Windows.
Windows will "Read-Only" the Mac partition.
Mac will "Read-Only" the NTFS partition.
This is handy for file swapping.
Cheers!!
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