Is Formatting An External Portable Hard Drive To exFAT The Best Way To Transfer Files Between Mac & Windows?

Ollie

I have a mac laptop and a windows 7 desktop and I was wondering if formatting a drive to exFAT was the best way to transfer my files across?

Answer
Format it NTFS. exFAT does't work on some drives and makes them either really slow or not able to transfer any data. I have tried this out on a bunch of drives

mac&pc portable hard drive.?

[ed]gar.

i have a wd external hd backed up to my mac with time machine. but know i think the square (hd) is huge and looks like a block. i wanna get a portable one. but i dont know witch one to buy because of all the options there is. I wanna get a 500gb that i can back it up to the mac but whenever i dont use my mac i wanna disconected and use it on the pc. is there a difference between. the WD portable hd for mac?
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=579
and the normal one?http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=691

so yea my question is; if i get the Mac formatted portable hd can i still use it on a pc?

Answer
yes u can use hard drive HD in mac as well as on pc i got same problem 2 years back when i bought my Time Capsule anyhow now i use maxter 750 gb (before it was 250gb) external HD with my pc and mac
no problem
dont worry but be sure for potable and external HD u need not to jurk too much as i loss my 250gb HD.

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thanks in advance

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