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David2213
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Apr 29, 2006, 02:59 AM
 
Ive got an external HD that is in the NTFS file format. I want to reformat it so i can read and write on OSX. How do i do this? What format is best to use?? Thanks for the help.
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Apr 29, 2006, 08:36 AM
 
In Disk Utility.
HFS if you only want to use it with OSX, FAT32 if you want to use it with OSX and Windows.
     
   
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