Formatting of ext HDD for both PC and Mac System

[Josho]

I have a PC base HDD; how do I format to let both system (Mac & PC) recongise it?

 

I read online that I can use MS-DOS file system for volume format, but I only have MS-DOS (FAT). (Using disk utility on Mac)

 

Please advise wor.

[Rncw]

you can format using Mac

[Tinydog]

Format it to FAT. NTFS can only be read by MAC but not write by MAC. Similarly MAC OS Extended can only be read by MAC but not by PC.

[Poper]

Use Windows to format it as Fat32 so that Mac and Windows both can read/write on it.

 

With NTFS, you can only read the HDD in Mac.

 

From experience.

[Mllcg]

isnt NTFS more stable?

 

why the lack of MAC support. lol

 

but yeah. use FAT if u wanna Read and write in Mac and Windows