Will a External HDD work? I have a WD 1TB external hdd in which i have most of my stuff, i heard from someone that the hdd formatted for PC's or windows laptops dont work for MAC and it needs to be formatted again in another file system format, is that true cant i use my external HDD on a MAC pro? Will a External HDD work? I have a WD 1TB external hdd in which i have most of my stuff, i heard from someone that the hdd formatted for PC's or windows laptops dont work for MAC and it needs... » Read More Will a External HDD work? I have a WD 1TB external hdd in which i have most of my stuff, i heard from someone that the hdd formatted for PC's or windows laptops dont work for MAC and it needs to be formatted again in another file system format, is that true cant i use my external HDD on a MAC pro? « Show Less
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You should be able to access most files that have a common app (Mac and PC) - the challenge will be saving any updates.Typically PC formatted external drives are FAT32, which will convert to the MAC, but not able to be write enabled back.The exception will be music and photos, they should be available for iTunes and iPhoto imports.
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There are some HD's out there now that can run both Mac and PC platforms but they have to be partitioned for each platform. I want to say Click Free has one like this now. The best thing is to inquire with the manufacture before purchasing one. Or have one for your PC and one for your Mac.
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Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 TB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive STAA1000100 (Black) I use this one and it rocks and you just have to install the mac software
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Yes, it will work on Macs. WD markets an additional drive specifically for Macs, but it's all a marketing ploy. They are interchangeable.
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You should probably find out if you have a USB 3.0 port on your machine or plan on getting a docking station in case your Macbook doesn't recognize this external drive.Personally, I have it working on a Toshiba laptop using W8.1 without any problems (read/write DVD single and dual layers + read/write Blu Rays) however it needs at least two USB ports to get enough power to function (I'm using 1 usb 3.0 port and 1 usb 2.0 port) so make sure you have enough available ports to power this.
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My use of this drive has been exclusively on the Mac. However, I did not use any of the back-up software or formatting provided on the drive. It was necessary to use the Mac disk utility to reformat the drive. Then it worked with Apple's Time Machine.
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It comes formatted for PC (NTFS), but like most hard drives, it can be formatted with the Disk Utility on a Mac to HFS+.First link from Bing gives a good walk through of how to format it: http://www.ehow.com/how_2063795_format-hard-drive-mac-os.html Hope that helps!
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Yes. Your Mac will ask how you want to format the drive. You choose the format that works best in your environment.
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You should be able to use it on both Windows and Mac to read and write. You just have to reformat the drive for FAT32 rather than NTFS. I did this with my WD my passport ultra, works fine unless Toshiba has documentation that states you cannot format FAT32, but I doubt it.
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I don't have a Mac with me, so I'll just give you rough instructions. When you're on the desktop, at the top of your screen, one of the menu drop downs will take you to the disk utility. In there, you should see this disk listed somewhere in the left pane. Click the drive to highlight it, then on the right, you'll have an option to erase/format the disk. I believe you format it to extended journaled or something like that, don't pick case sensitive. After you do that, you should be able to use the drive with your Mac. I believe it's originally formatted to NTFS, which should be useable with OSX as well, but not as fully compatible, though it would also work with Windows. If you want good compatibility between the two operating systems, you can format it to FAT32, I believe those are better compatible. I haven't had much time with Macs, so not 100% sure on that, but you can give it a try. :)
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I use it on my Macbook as a time machine drive. I just plugged it in and it backs my machine up without any manual steps. So it can be used as an external without using any of the software that may have been on the drive. I hope this helps
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This hard drive can be used on Windows, and inside the drive there is a folder for mac. Because it's an external USB 3.0 drive (compatible with 2.0), you can work for backups or data store from several devices.
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It will work on a mac computer. Check the file system when you get it. If it is NTFS, yes you will have to reformat. If it is fat32 you can use it in the mac straight away. Either way, I would recommend you reformat it to exfat because fat32 has a much smaller file size limitation.
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I wrote you a response (which is below) but I realized you might be confused as to what this product is. This isn't an external hard drive. It's a hard drive enclosure, it's basically an empty shell that holds a hard drive. You have to buy the actual drive separately You should be good in that direction PC to Mac. Windows uses the NT File System on it's drives, Mac's can read those files and copy them to the mac, but mac's can't write to a NTFS drive. So you couldn't add or save anything on to the drive. A solution for this would be to make a partition that's FAT32 both mac and windows can read and write to that, it's the file system flash drives usually have. Sometimes there's a 32GB limit on FAT32 drives so you might not be able to turn the whole drive into it. But you can partition one drive into multiple parts.
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Yes it can. Look it up online, (even before you get it) and you can figure it out. Basically using a PC format the drive to FAT or exFAT file system. This can be read on Mac and PC. I did this. Had a Mac, it broke and I switched to a PC, used this to transfer my backed up files afer formatting it correctly. I also have since used it to transfer docs between other's Mac's and my PC. Works great.
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Hey, it's me again. I just went to there site and everything I saw said Mac compatible in the description, even though the Clickfree brand drives say "Multi-PC", I think one has to take the "PC" as a broad definition for any "personal computer", not just a windows. I still don't know if one can back up a Mac and a Windows computer on the same drive. The developers are REALLY bright from what I read in an article so I wouldn't be suprised! Just wanted to do some more research for you, but I still encourage you to go to there site as it is early in the morning and I'm getting ready for work... Cheers! Hey, it's me again. I just went to there site and everything I saw said Mac compatible in the description, even though the Clickfree brand drives say "Multi-PC", I think one has to take the "PC" as a broad definition for any "personal computer", not just a windows. I still don't know if one can back up a Mac and a Windows computer on the same drive. The developers are REALLY bright from what I read in an article so I wouldn't be suprised! Just wanted to do some more research for you, but I still encourage you to go to there site as it is early in the morning... » Read More Hey, it's me again. I just went to there site and everything I saw said Mac compatible in the description, even though the Clickfree brand drives say "Multi-PC", I think one has to take the "PC" as a broad definition for any "personal computer", not just a windows. I still don't know if one can back up a Mac and a Windows computer on the same drive. The developers are REALLY bright from what I read in an article so I wouldn't be suprised! Just wanted to do some more research for you, but I still encourage you to go to there site as it is early in the morning and I'm getting ready for work... Cheers! « Show Less
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I tried my Toshiba HDDs but none of them work. I think it is because of power. But some people answered that it powered other brand HDDs. So I think it really depend on HDDs.
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Are you asking will it work with a HDD out of a Mac or if it will work when you plug it into a Mac? Either way the answer should be yes. Two things to keep in mind though:1. As long as the HDD out of an old Mac is IDE and not SATA it will work. 2. Just keep in mind whatever HDD you put in this it will need to be formatted for FAT32. If it's NTFS it will ONLY work for windows. (but you can change the format easily)
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The drive is supported, it comes formatted in fat32. You can reformat to mac only or exFat if you want. USB 3 is not supported on macs (yet, you'll need a new mac), but the drive works just fine.I have 2, use them both on mac's and pc's with no issues. Great drive, really fast even on usb2.