What type of external hard drive can my Mac support?

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I know that Macs can only support a certain type of hard drive, but I have no idea what it's called. I used one in the past, and I was only able to transfer files from the drive to the computer, but not from the computer to the drive.

What format does the external hard drive have to be so it can be compatible with a Mac?

Thanks!

Answer
They will support any USB or FireWire drive, as long as its formatted in a way the Mac will understand such as FAT32 (an old Windows format, the most portable format available) or HFS+ (OS X's native format, which you need for Time Machine). If the drive is formatted another way, such as NTFS (Windows XP and Vista native format), you'll either need to use Disk Utility to reformat it or find a driver for it. For NTFS, you can use the ntfs-3g program. This will also let you read and write boot camp drives.

What portable hard drives work with macbooks?

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Well im looking for a portable hard drive that can work with a macbook. I thought every hard drive works with and type of computer but i looked on the back and it said only windows vista, windows 7 or windows xp... so what can work for a mac book

Answer
You can consider buying
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*Visual drive control center
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