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Tag Archives: Format
Q. My USB memory stick won’t let me save a 4.2 GB file?
You are finding that individual files larger than 3.99 GB are failing when you copy them to a USB memory stick (or a camera memory card, or an external hard drive). The simple answer is that the memory stick is … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Questions and Answers, General Computer, How-To, Mac questions, Windows questions
Tagged 4 GB, exFAT, FAT32, Flash cards, Format, Macintosh, Memory keychain, NTFS, Storage, USB, Windows
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Q. How to set up a new external hard drive on a Mac?
A. When you plug in a new external hard drive to a Mac, it will either be formatted for Windows (in which case you may have trouble writing to it from the Mac) or it will be unformatted. An internal … Continue reading
Posted in General Computer, Hard Drives and SSD, How-To, Mac questions
Tagged Apple, Disk Utility, Erase, External drive, Format, GUID, Initialize, Internal Drive, Macintosh, Partition, Repair
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Q. How do I format an external hard drive on a Mac?
Before you can use a hard drive, it needs to be formatted, which organizes the data structure on the drive ready to accept data. In addition, a drive can be partitioned into two or more logical volumes, or it can … Continue reading
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Tagged Computer, Format, Hard Drive, Install, Macintosh, Windows
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Q. I have a drive I have been using on a Mac, I plugged it into a Windows machine and it can’t read it, there’s no data.
The hard drive is formatted as a Mac HFS+ volume. Windows can’t read it without some third party software MacDrive www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive Paragon HFS+ for Windows www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/ HSF Explorer (open source, read only) www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html Although both Windows and Mac can read … Continue reading
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Tagged Cross-platform, Format, Hard Drive, Macintosh, Windows
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