I have a Mac Pro 5,1 with several drives that include El Capitan and Win7 in bootcamp. I am trying to setup an external 2TB drive as a backup drive for all my drives. I have already formatted this external drive as HFS and have some video files on it. Now I need to setup time machine on the drive as well as partition it to backup the windows NTFS drives too.
I can't make an NTFS partition in MacOS, so I went to the windows side and it won't let me shrink and partition the drive without formatting the whole thing, which I can't do as I already have video files on there. The only option I see is creating an exFAT partition in MacOS to backup my windows drives and then setup time machine for the rest.
I have read that exFAT is unreliable compared to NTFS. Is this the way to go or is there another option? Id prefer not to buy any software.
Thanks
I can't make an NTFS partition in MacOS, so I went to the windows side and it won't let me shrink and partition the drive without formatting the whole thing, which I can't do as I already have video files on there. The only option I see is creating an exFAT partition in MacOS to backup my windows drives and then setup time machine for the rest.
I have read that exFAT is unreliable compared to NTFS. Is this the way to go or is there another option? Id prefer not to buy any software.
Thanks