How to Format External Hard Drive for Mac & Windows (MS-Dos or ExFat?)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- If you want to transfer files from a Mac to Windows PC and vice versa using an external portable hard drive then you have to have the external drive formatted in a file system both OS's can read and write too. Your choice is ms-dos (aka fat32) or exfat and I go over the difference in the video.
Note: most external drives you buy will automatically be formatted in NTFS which is a Windows file system. Macs can only read but not write to a ntfs file system. So if you want your external hard drive to be backward compatible with both OS's then you need to reformat it with fat32 or exfat.
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This was so helpful! I bought an external hard drive and had no idea that it had to be formatted. I really appreciate your walk-through!
Hey mate, just wanted to say this helped me massively....4 years on from your upload date
same here
Same 😭
5yrs here
Thanks for the video. It was straight to the point and very informative. The fact that you explained the difference between the two types of formatting was something new for me.
Love it straight to the point . Not a 20 min video of unnecessary noise 🎉❤
This is an awesome tutorial! Short, sweet, and to the point! Great job, bro!
Those mouse clicks at 150dB are insane. Are all Mac mouses louder than gunshots? Jeez...
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its the fucking unregistered hyper cam that's making the sounds lmao
Fr thought I was getting shot at
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Its been over a year since I formatted a hard drive so I appreciate how easy this was so much X'D thank you for sharing!!!
7 years since you made this tutorial and I still return to watch it. Thanks! Your education is far appreciated.
Fast, easy, clear to understand .. thank you
DUUUDE!!! Thank you! I was looking for a solution for over 4 hours online and there was none to be found since I was forced to work remotely on a windows laptop. I should have checked youtube first. You are a rockstar!
thank you so much! i always had the issue with transferring files that exceeded 2-4gb, so your explanation between exfat and fat32 was greatly appreciated!
Thanks mate, this is perfect. Straight to the point, with all the info I needed and no fluff.
I wish all "How to's" were like this. Cheers
Thank you! This saved me a lot of frustration.
Was wondering if this video was a trustworthy solution, then I see the one and only Brock Baker gave it a seal of approval. Thanks!
Same X'D
AWESOME! A clear and concise guide! what I was looking for! Thanks a lot!
Great, very clear and concise explanation of this useful process! I was glad also to learn about some of the differences between exFAT and FAT32 formats here. Thank you.
You know exactly why we're here and you impeccably delivered it.
Great video, straight to the point. Thank you for making it simple unlike others :)
Save my day thanks
Appreciate how quick and simple this video was! Now I can finally get some videography files off my macbook. You're the man!
I *ALWAYS* come back to this video when I need to format a hard drive. You're a life saver, man. Been using this video for most of my college years :')
Just a tip for your videos. Turn off that clicking sound
+Paul Sweeney haha thank you.. this is like the third comment about the clicking noise. Yea I'll try to disable this here on out thx man!
it sounds satisfying tbh. xD
commenters here are just being ungrateful. say thank you to the person who uploaded and shared this video and politely say that click sound is loud. what's wrong with people nowadays?
Yes 2 mins into the video, can't stand the clicking noise and have to leave.
but how?
this really helped me thank you so much! I kind of liked the mouse clicking sound, to each their own :)
a trick : watch series at Flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching loads of movies during the lockdown.
@Carlos Colton Yea, I've been watching on Flixzone for months myself :D
WOW - I am impressed with that click sound. Crazy but good to get that confirmation that you have clicked the mouse button
Im using an old external hard drive to put wii games on for my homebrewed wii. I didn’t think it would work but thanks to this video I got it working. Thank you bro! Super easy guide to follow.
simple and nice, thanks
you are going straight to heaven
Thank you so much! Was having difficulty formatting and had a new hard drive in the cart. Just saved me 50$!
great advice on the ExFat, that sorted the issue with erasing and losing half the drive space, cheers
absolute legend, perfect tutorial
Love the video info, not so much the CLICKS... Thanks again...
A million thanks for doing this !!
Really, really helpful.
I edit on a PC, and a company gave me a hard drive formatted as APFS so I couldn't do anything for the videos I needed to make for them. This saved me. Thanks man!
Well, let's see now. Great audio, great video, great language (no indecipherable accent!), great explanation and short/concise! Wow, a few mouse click noises... Big Deal! Very nice video! Thanks.
Thank you needed to know how to do this on a Mac (as opposed to PC) but worth mentioning re-formatting disk will actually erase anything currently on it so back that data up else where before you start.
would have been nice to know BEFORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ouchhh
Carrie Snay hi Carrie were you able to retrieve any of the data you lost?? Same thing happened to me
Darragh MOS same here. FUCK
Pat Fernandes SAME HERE OMG CAN ANYONE HELP
Anyone with an MD Drive, this guy will save your life! Cheers!
LOVE THIS! NO RAMBELING AND STRAIGHT TO THE POINT! THANK YOU!!!
thks so much. It helps me in 2019 :D
Yo this video is helpful. Exfat for the win.
dude I come back to this video a couple times a year thanks for making it! 😁👍🏼
You explain great. I really enjoyed finding the answer to this frustration question thanks to your ability to explain so relaxing and soothing. Thanks bruh!
Hello! I really like your tutorial cause it’s straight to the point, but I have tried it multiple times it keeps saying “unmounting disk Media kit reports not enough space on device for requested operation. Operation failed!”
So, what shout I do? My external hard drive is 2 TB. Please help.
Anything new? did you fix it?
Thank you for the great video! But when I try to do it, I get an "invalid request"... Do you know why? Or what can I do? Thanks!
you using WD my passport? use the WD drive utilities instead.
very simple and to the point, clear explanation, thanks a lot!
THANK YOU- This really helped!!!!
Great video but dam your mouse click louder than my glock?
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I reformatted to ex-fat and now it copies files to the external HDD very very slow. Please help
Thank you soooo much ! Very quick, clear and easy instructions !
Thank you so much for the information. Straight to the point and easy to understand.
Thank you for such an informative tutorial,
however, you failed to mention files will be deleted once
you format to an exfat if you do currently have files.
I have just followed your quick and concise steps and achieved what I wanted to
do but now all my previous files are deleted! you missed
that out. much appreciated though.
thank you so much literally every other video had an indian talking where I couldn't understand and people talking to much and not getting to the point. Nice and concise.
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Get this man award for the efficiency and specificity on this great video 🙌🏾🙌🏾
Beautiful, Thank you very much! Amazing tutorial, short & precise!
Is there a way to get this format without deleting the files ? :)
nope
you want to format to clean off the whole thing, so the files have to be moved off to do the cleaning.
Thanks for the help, is there any way I can do it without erasing everything thats already on my Hard Drive.
I have the same question.
no
Great clip simple and to the point with properties. Thank you for making a clip like this really appreciate this.
I've been looking for this information ALL DAY!! Thank you!!! :)
wait does it erase everything that i have on my Hard Drive already?
yes lol
@@FrankBenavidez is there a way to NOT erase everything and still do this?
My erasing process has failed, it says unmounting disk, and unable to write to the last block of the device
did you find the answer to this cause mine is saying the same thing
System Stopper i
you have to check if your wired are working correctly because sometimes they are not working perfectly
There should be a special trophy for people like you on TH-cam. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video. It did exactly as you said, so thank you. 🙏
Imagine having a dry mouth AND clicking that loud.
I feel late to the game, but in the clutch you still welcomed me with open arms with this info! Keep at it young man!
This video helped soo much ! Super easy and straight to the point.
Tq for keeping it short and clear enuf for the layman and professionals alike. I do video projects on a mac and often send footages to a teammate on Windows. Having a HDD that works for both platforms makes for less worry on corruption issues. Been watching and re-watching this vid few times now over the years, havent had any drive issues. Thanks again for the help!
Thank you so much! This has been driving me crazy trying to get this to work!
great tutorial, worked exactly as you said and thanks for the ExFAT tip
Thank you for making it so concise! Very helpful.
Thank you for this! My hard drive MS Dose FAT and it really bugged me that I couldn't transfer files larger than 4gbs. Also your explanation was really easy to understand and follow. :)
Quick and straightforward - helped a lot. Thanks!
I have been coming back to this exact video for years... thank you for your civil service, my good sir.
Thanks for making this so easy! I'm tech challenged and I did it!!
This video helped me reformat my external hardrive correctly. I RECOMMEND THIS VIDEO TO ANYONE WITH AN EXTERNAL HARDRIVE THAT NEEDS TO REFORMAT IT FOR A MACBOOK PRO COMPUTER
THANK YOU- straight to the point and simple to follow instructions-
Oh man, I greatly appreciate you doing this video! This helps so much.
Thanks for your simple, easy and practical explanation on the subject in mention.
I lost all my data trying to get my External I used on Mac to work on a PC. This Vid was very helpful to prevent that mess I had to go through. Thanks!
Thank You! I was able to format change my seagate hard drive. This video is so good. Especially for a visual learner as myself.
Thanks for a straightforward and easy to follow video!
simple, to the point , exactly what i needed to know.. thank you!
whew thank you! very easy to follow and straight to the point!
I'm so glad that there are people like you on TH-cam! Thanks for the video. It really helped :)
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Great Video and very helpful. Short, sweet, and to the point.
I want to thank you so much. I was breaking my head over here till I saw this video. Everything worked perfectly. Thank you for explaining everything.
After countless attempts your video was the only one that helped. It was simple and straight to the point. Thanks!
This comment just made my morning thank you!
thank you, 4 years since you posted this but really helped me out 👍👍👍
Thank you! I put off dealing with this for months, and now all my storage is useable :)
+EmileeArsenic 👍🏻
Thank you! I was struggling with this for a while.
Watching in 2019 and this video was super helpful!
Thanks for this video. Really didn't understand how to do this and your vid saved a lot of stress!
I wish I could Like and Subscribe 100 times. Thank you for making it so simple and clear on what to do.
I always come back to these perfect instructions from you. So much thanks ❤🙏.
5 years in and this helped a ton! Thanks
Very simple explaination but effective easy to understand, thank you so much. New macos user here.
Thank you so much , this video is pretty old but great.
You've saved me and my footages.
SHORT AND STRAIGHT TO THE POINT !!! THANK YOUUU!!!
Lovely straight-to-the-point video!
Perfect Video! Great Step by Step. So easy to follow! Thanks!!
Thank You! This video was very helpful.
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