“does this work for both mac and windows does this work for mac and windows with out having to erase all the storage form one if use a diff. computer. do you have to download a driver on every new mac you use it on also”

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• If you format the drive so that the file system is exFAT, then both MAC and PC will be able to read and transfer files. However, devices such as Playstation, Xbox and blu-ray players do not read exFAT.

  Answered by JSAND 9 years ago

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• No separate driver needed and this does work on both Mac and windows based PC (I use mine on an iMac desktop), but it does need to be formatted for one or the other and I don't now if it is transferable once formatted. So It probably will not go back and forth between systems. Hope this helps.

  Answered by desertMike 9 years ago

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• There are drivers to make it work either way. If you use it as an NTFS drive you need a driver for your mac machines. If you format it for mac you need a driver on your windows boxes.

  Answered by LKMovieWatcher 9 years ago

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• It works with both Mac and Windows, but you need to use Mac's Disk Utility to format it for both (be VERY careful that you are formatting this hard drive, not your computer's hard drive) before using it, if you're going to want to use it on both operating systems. I formatted mine for EXFAT (Fat32 also works on Mac and Windows but is limited to files that are 4G or smaller), and that's worked well.

  Answered by stxnpx 8 years ago

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• yes it works with bath Mac and Windows

  Answered by SKUSA 9 years ago

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• Yes, i use the drive on both

  Answered by RoyS 8 years ago

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• I found drive came formatted for Windows, MAC could read but not write to it, I had to format drive for MAC to match my environment. software indicates you can partition the drive example 2 TB Windows, 2 TB MAC, BUT I did not try that

  Answered by JAHahn 8 years ago

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• Yes. Both. exFat and its fine

  Answered by jaysonslade 9 years ago

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• yes

  Answered by doreenslem 8 years ago

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• YEs

  Answered by BestBuyer 9 years ago

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