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way out of exfat for my Mac

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CarolynC

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Oct 4, 2010
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Hi. I recently bought a nice iomega 1T to stock all my multimedia files and as I have both a PC (recently turned into Windows 7) and a Mac Air, I knew I had to reformated the disk from NFTS. The only alternative was to Exfat, so I did, to find then that my disk wasn't recognized by my Mac. I read some articles confirming this fact, but my problem now is to find a way to switch from Exfat to Fat 32. There must exist some software doing that. If any one could help ?
thanks in advance
 
What about using Disk Utility (Applications / Utilities / )?



Format Your Hard Drive Using Disk Utility
Partition Your Hard Drive With Disk Utility


GGJstudios said:
FAT32
  • Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
  • No individual file larger than 4GB.
NTFS
HFS
  • Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
  • To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive
  • To Read HFS (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer
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There are free programs out there that allow you to format that are larger than 32GB with FAT32 on a Windows machine. I have one on my computer but I can't tell you the name because I renamed it when I downloaded it. Have a gander around on a search engine.
 
Grannyville7989 said:
There are free programs out there that allow you to format that are larger than 32GB with FAT32 on a Windows machine. I have one on my computer but I can't tell you the name because I renamed it when I downloaded it. Have a gander around on a search engine.
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With Disk Utility you can create partitions using the FAT32 file system that are larger than 32GB, I had one with 100GB in size and now I just used FAT32 to format a 1TB HDD just to show, that it does work there too.

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Btw, I used Disk Utility to do that, which comes free with Mac OS X.
 
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