Old External HDD with OS X

[AirJordanFan93]

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.

 

[MarvinHC]

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.

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

 

[AirJordanFan93]

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

Thanks for the link. Re-formatted my drive to exfat.