The method is totally free and not very complicated if you are comfortable with Terminal commands.įollow the steps carefully and the at your own risk: Therefore, it is not very recommended for the use of transferring important files. If you don’t know where it is, you can use the magnifying glass icon to open Spotlight Search, input Terminal and hit Enter to launch it.Ĭopy and paste the command line sudo nano /etc/fstab in italics to the Terminal window and hit Enter. Another option, for those who use both Windows and Mac OS regularly, is to partition your hard drive and have a portion of the drive formatted for each OS.Spot NTFS volume(s) in the volume list and drag it to the left column of Finder for easy access. There are tools available to use NTFS on a Mac (Fuse) or HFS on PC (HFSExplorer). Windows will not detect this file system without a third party utility.
Only use this option if the drive will only be used in Mac OS. Mac OS Extended is the native solution for Mac users and has the max file size of any of them.It has a much larger max file size but is read-only on Mac OS X (unless you install a third party NTFS read/write utility). NTFS format is the file system Windows likes to use by default for internal drives running the operating system or used as a secondary storage drive.Older operating systems might require an update to properly read and write to a USB drive with an exFAT file system. It doesn’t have the 4GB file size limit and it’s compatible with most Windows and Mac operating systems. exFAT is the ideal file system for USB flash drives.It is the most compatible file system for older/modern computers (PC and Mac) plus gaming consoles and other devices with a USB port. Most USB flash drives will have a FAT32 file system out-of-box.
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