I have a flash drive that I formatted to work with an Apple TV hack, and that required you to make it formatted for mac only. I went and erased the drive after the hack, and attempted to format it to work with windows also; however I was unsuccessful. How could I make it work with both OSX and XP/Vista?
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To work with both, format it as FAT32
In Disk Utility use MS DOS (FAT) as the format type
Check out the various file systems here: MR Guide: File Systems
If a disk is formatted NTFS, OSX will read but not write it
You will need something like NTFS-3G for OSX to read/write
If a disk is formatted HFS+, you will need something like MacDrive for Windows to read/write
In Disk Utility use MS DOS (FAT) as the format type
Check out the various file systems here: MR Guide: File Systems
If a disk is formatted NTFS, OSX will read but not write it
You will need something like NTFS-3G for OSX to read/write
If a disk is formatted HFS+, you will need something like MacDrive for Windows to read/write