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nEO147

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Nov 16, 2012
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i have new WD 2TB external hdd and i want to use it on macos and windows. i formated smaller hdd with exfat and i wrote some files in mac, after restart i opened windows i couldn't see them and i back macos but files wasnt there... maybe it is about my hdds problem...

i want to ask what is best way the format hdd with exfat

1- on macos or windows ?
2- guid or mbr?
3- (on windows) file allocation unit? i came across in a forum "choose 1024 or smaller"
...

im not sure they are important or not, just i want to ask...
(i'm using MacOSX 10.8.2 and Windows 8)

sorry for language mistakes...
 
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