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Formatting external hard drive for both Mac and PC?

Hey guys, my son's WD My Passport External HDD is now asking to format whenever plugged in. He would like to reformat so it could be used plug and play into either Mac or PC, how can I best do this please?

Posted on Mar 9, 2018 4:51 AM

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Mar 9, 2018 5:48 AM in response to mikehende

Oh, doing some more research I found this link here which gives instructions on formatting to ex-fat or file 32.


How to format a WD hard drive to exFAT or FAT32 file system | WD Support


My research is showing that with both ex-fat or fat32 there will be a file size limit so is there any option for this please for plug play mac and PC without any files size limits?

Formatting external hard drive for both Mac and PC?

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