If it’s an external hard drive, you can format it with exFAT, which doesn’t have the limits and work with both Windows and OS X. But it has a 4 GB file size and 2 TB partition size limit. If you want to make the hard drive to be readable and writable on different OSes, you can format it as FAT32, which has the best compatibility with different systems. NTFS is read-only on OS X devices, and Windows machines cannot even read hard drives formatted HFS plus. ![]() Different OS has a different default file system, and the Windows default file system is NTFS, OS X NTFS plus, and Linux EXT family. ![]() ![]() A new hard drive has to be formatted with some specific file systems before it is used to store data in Windows 7 operating system (OS).įormatting Windows 7 hard drive will erase all the data on the drive and rebuild a file system.
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