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Why does my external HD take so long to load?

knobtwiddler

knobtwiddler

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I have a Seagate 2TB external HD formatted as MS-DOS FAT and it takes a few minutes to load on my macbook. It loads up quickly on the imac which it was formatted on. I've never had a HD do this. Any way to speed it up?
 
If you havent got much on it yet, try re-formatting on the slow Mac and see if it improves anything.

Does it have to be in FAT32 format?
 
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