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Formatting external hard drive

I Just bought a MacBook Air and have an external hard drive with pictures from my old pc on it. Is there a way to format the hard drive so that I can now copy pictures from my Mac to the hard drive without erasing the hard drive? I have pictures on the hard drive that are not anywhere else.

MacBook Air, iOS 10.2

Posted on Jan 28, 2017 2:08 PM

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Posted on Feb 2, 2017 6:42 AM

Formatting the drive will erase its contents. While software such as Paragon NTFS can be used to write to the drive without reformatting it, the photos should be on at least two drives; all drives will eventually fail.


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Formatting external hard drive

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