External Hard Drive, FAT32 to NTFS

[Jitaka]

Hi all;

I recently decided to ascend from the land of windows to the mac world and I have a question involving my western digital external hard drive.

My EDD is currently in the standard FAT32 format; however, I recenlty realized that if I ever want to transfer a file larger 4GB to it that I need to to format it to NTFS.

I believe FAT32 is compatible with mac (I haven't plugged my mac into the EDD yet), but what about NTFS? Will said conversion forever restrict my mac from accessing those files?

 

[sushi]

The Mac OS can:

• Read an NTFS volume. It cannot write to it.
  
• Read and write to a FAT32 volume.

 

[Carrot007]

The Mac OS can:

• Read an NTFS volume. It cannot write to it.

Without additional software of course.

NTFS read/write is available to macs in both free and pay software.

 

[sushi]

Without additional software of course.

NTFS read/write is available to macs in both free and pay software.

True.

And there is always the sneakernet method via a USB Thumbdrive.

 

[Jitaka]

Thanks Guys