Old External HDD with OS X

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  1. AirJordanFan93, Jan 8, 2015

    AirJordanFan93 macrumors newbie

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    I just got my MBA today and I have an existing external HDD which contains my music,image and video files I backed up from my old Windows laptop. Im a Mac noob so can I use the drive as I would on Windows or do I have to do formatting to the drive before I can use it.
     
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  2. MarvinHC, Jan 8, 2015

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    You can read from it but most likely not write / delete until you format it exFAT.

    Some reading here:

    http://lifehacker.com/5927185/use-the-exfat-file-system-and-never-format-your-external-drive-again
     
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  3. AirJordanFan93, Jan 9, 2015

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