![]() We would really appreciate if you share this article. Read on to find out helpful tips to format a hard drive. Again, please subscribe us for more such How to guides, tech updates and much more or like us/follow us on Twitter, facebook or Google+. Mac users format an external hard drive before handing over to another person to erase existing data. We hope you liked this Howto guide, please let’s us know if you know any other workaround. Watch this video to know how to format any Hard Disk drive for Mac, Windows or any other OS. We have also attached a video guide here. ![]() It has notable limitations, including difficulties with files of size larger than 4 GB. I was so happy to try it on my MacBook Air, only to find I could not save any files to it. Mac OS X supports this format for both reading and writing, as does Windows. I got a WD My Passport hard drive from my friend as my birthday present. However, it is still widely used as almost all Flash-based drives use this format. FAT32 is a legacy file system in the Windows world. ![]() Now you can use your external hard disk only with Mac systems or Mac OS. But what if we want to use the same hard disk drive on Mac, Windows or any other OS? Well, there are few workarounds like formatting HDD to MS-DOS, FAT32 or NTFS-3G.
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