Timeline for Best file system for an external hard drive sharing between OS X and Windows
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Jun 24, 2012 at 15:50 | vote | accept | Guillaume | ||
| Jun 24, 2012 at 15:41 | comment | added | Gordon Davisson | OS X's Disk Utility (since 10.6.5) can format in ExFAT. The reason to use the MBR partition scheme is compatibility -- all versions of Windows know how to read MBR, some know how to read GPT, and none (natively) know how to read APM. | |
| Jun 24, 2012 at 11:59 | comment | added | Guillaume | Can I format to exFAT on OSX? | |
| Jun 24, 2012 at 9:34 | comment | added | Guillaume | OS X Lion, maybe Mountain Lion after July and Windows 7/Vista. And why I have to use the MBR partition scheme ? | |
| Jun 23, 2012 at 15:30 | history | answered | Gordon Davisson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |