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BruceiD

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May 1, 2012
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Belgium
Hey everyone!

I'm planning on buying the G-Technology 500GB USB3 external hard drive since it's small, looks great and inexpensive (€69 here).
Anyways this is "designed to work seamlessly with the Macbook Air and Macs..." but I was wondering whether this hard drive will have any problems with Windows because I'm planning to store projects on the drive that I have to show to other people who have Windows computers.
So, does anyone have this kind of drive or can anyone answer my question :)?

Link to the drive

Thanks in advance!
Bruce
 
From the description it appears it is already formatted in HFS+ (the Mac disk format). That won't allow Windows users to read files from the drive. If you want a format that both Windows and Mac can read/write, use exFAT.
 
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