![]() OS X can read NTFS drives, but it can’t write to them. ![]() If the hard drive is formatted in the Windows NTSF format, it will mount on the desktop when you plug it into the Mac, but you won’t be able to copy files to it. You can fix that by installing Mediafour’s $50 MacDrive 8 on the Windows system it enables Windows to use a Mac-formatted drive natively. If the drive is formatted for the Mac (using HFS Extended or a variant), Windows won’t recognize it. Macs and PCs both have USB ports to which you can connect a removable hard drive. ![]() ![]() There are three good ways to share a single hard drive between Macs and PCs for general storage and backup: You can trade a USB hard drive between them you can use a network-attached storage (NAS) device (such as Apple’s Time Capsule) and you can also use file sharing to back up data on one system to an external drive attached to another system. ![]()
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