Oyen Digital is an innovative developer and manufacturer in the portable storage industry. We are dedicated to developing groundbreaking technology products and have extensive knowledge and experience in audio/video production and mass storage. The following question is a question frequently asked by customers of external and portable USB, FireWire, and eSATA drives.

Can I share my external hard drive between a Mac and PC?

If you intend to share files between a Windows and Mac computer, the easiest option is to format the drive as MS-DOS using the Mac computer. This will create a FAT32 partition, which is compatible with both Windows and Mac. One drawback of FAT32 is that an individual file can be no larger than 4GB. This is generally not an issue unless you are storing very large multimedia files.

The best option may be to use a 3rd party software product that allows hard drives formatted in the Macintosh file system (Mac OS Extended, HFS+) to be used on Windows computers. The following program allows this capability: MacDrive from MediaFour.

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