What formatting type should I use for my external hard drive?

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I currently have an external hard drive formatted with NTFS for my PC. I will most likely be purchasing a Mac soon and would like the hard drive to work on both the PC and Mac. What is the best formatting option for this?

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FAT32. Except, use a third party tool to format it. Youll usually get much better performance if you use a third party tool.

How do I reformat an external hard drive from a Mac to Windows 7, without a Mac?

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I used to have a Mac desktop and laptop, so both of my external hard drives were formatted accordingly. I now have a Toshiba Satellite that runs on Windows 7. I am not able to view either of my external hard drives on my Toshiba - what do I do to change this? Thank you, in advance.

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Does your windows 7 computer identify the devices? It may still identify the devices just not let you view the content of them because they are in a different format. If so take note of the drive letters and go into CMD and type "format drive:x" or something similar. Once it has formatted you should be able to import it as a foreign disk in Disk Management or simply now use it with your windows pc.

Let me know if this helps as im not sure how else it can be done without a mac.

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