- #Format toshiba hard drive for mac and pc mac os x#
- #Format toshiba hard drive for mac and pc mac os#
- #Format toshiba hard drive for mac and pc movie#
- #Format toshiba hard drive for mac and pc drivers#
The whole point of Formatting your drive this way, is so you can transfer more then the 4gb that you are limited to by just using FAT32. Then click Apply, and then Partition and wait till its done.Ĭongratulations!!! You now have a drive that will work on both PC and MAC and that will play on PS3 or XBOX!! Then select options at the bottom and make this a "Master boot". *** This partition can also work on a PC or Mac, But If you plug the drive into a PS3, This is the only Partition that will be recognized! My drive was a 1 Tb, so it made this 999.10 Gb size. The next step is automatically done for you as the Mac will assign the remaining space on the drive to this partition. Then make this Partition FAT32 by selecting MS-DOS (FAT). Name it something like "Movies", so you know this is the partition that you will be using to store your data for it to work on the PS3. Now you have to format the second Partition. you can make this partition any size you want, depending on the size of your drive.
#Format toshiba hard drive for mac and pc movie#
For me, this is my movie drive that will be used mostly with my PS3. *** This partition can be used on PC or Mac but not on a PS3, which is why i made it so small.
Then make this Partition the smallest size allowed, which is 1.07gb. Then go over to the Volume Information side and name it something like "Don"t use" because you literally will not be using this partition.Then make this partition format EXFAT. Then under the Volume Scheme Part, select "2 Partitions". Then click on the partition option at the top. On my MAC i used the "Disk Utility" and selected my passport drive.
Holy crap thats awesome! I can now watch anything i want on my PS3 and transfer large amounts of data from both PC and MAC!!! I have got it transfer up to 60gb of movies. If you split the partitions on your drive to use both EXFAT and Fat32 you will be able to transfer more data then 4 gigs on the both sides.Yes, even the FAT32 side. you can only transfer up to 4gigs at a time!! Who wants to do that, especially if you want to watch blue rays?!! So, how do you solve the problem with 3 different issues? And, even if you do reformat your drive to a FAT32, so it can be read on both PC and MAC and then PS3, the big problem is. All the information i read from various forums, said that this can't be done because MAC is HFS and PC is NTFS formats. I also wanted it to work with my MAC and my PC. I bought myself a new WD Passport elite 1Tb and it would not work with my PS3. after many hours of trying different things, i have finally found the perfect solution. I have been trying to solve this problem also. exFAT is one of those tropic file systems that just recently got some attention. I don't know of any general device like a HDTV or STB that can read this format.Īs already mentioned your best option is FAT32 with the limitation that files cannot exceed 4GB. exFAT might work for your Windows computers (Vista and 7 support it, XP with a Hotfix) but again, does your HDTV support it? I highly doubt it.
#Format toshiba hard drive for mac and pc drivers#
Some Linux distros can read it, Windows requires special File System Drivers which are mostly commercial.
#Format toshiba hard drive for mac and pc mac os#
The second point is the bigger problem here: Mac OS Extended (HFS plus) is pretty much unique to Apple.
#Format toshiba hard drive for mac and pc mac os x#
I would say you are facing two problems here:īy default Mac OS X will format the Hard Drive using GPT Partition Table (or Apple Partition Map for PPC Macs). You will have to reformat it using Master Boot Record because Apple Partition Map is solely supported by Apple and I highly doubt current HDTV's, Set Top Boxes or whatever can read GPT.Īs for Windows GPT support is also limited: Vista and 7 fully support it, XP 64bit only for data, XP 32bit does not.
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