Hello, I recently bought a Toshiba Hard-Drive with the following features: • 500GB • It is a Canivo Basics 3.0 • It is USB 3.0 and 2.0 portable hard drive • It has already been formatted NTFS for Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8 • The box says that it can be reformatted for Mac I have a Macbook Pro with Retina Display that I bought this year in late March/early April. It runs OS X Mavericks, and Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac. ![]() ![]() Jan 27, 2015 - How can i write and Edit on my Toshiba hard disk drive on my mac if it is. There are also commercial solutions, eg Paragon NTFS for Mac. How to build executable visual studio for mac. I would like to reformat it so that I can use it on my laptop both with Windows and Mac OS at the same time. I do not wish to use a partition as I want to access the hard drive through Mac and Windows at the same time on my laptop and I also want to be able to access the Mac things on a Windows computer and vice versa. I have never formatted a hard drive before, and I would like to use a completely safe software, or no software at all, if it is possible. I am sorry but I don't have a very high knowledge of this. Thanks, Sandy-Wood. Hi Sandy, What you want to do is quite easy. You do not want to format the drive though for Mac. The best partition scheme for a drive that will be used for both Mac and Windows is to format it exFAT, and its actually easier to do it in Windows than on the Mac side. In Windows just right click on the drive and select Format. When the formatting window shows up under File System click on the pulldown menu and select exFAT, and then put a check next to Quick Format, label the drive, and then click on Start. If you want to do this on the Mac side. You would have to use Disk Utilit which is located in your Applications -> Utilities folder. In Disk Utility, on the left side will be a list of the drives, select the Toshiba Canivo and then on the right side of the window there will be a few tabs. Click onthe tab labeled Erase. Then under Format you would select exFAT, label the drive and then click on Erase. Hi Sandy, What you want to do is quite easy. You do not want to format the drive though for Mac. The best partition scheme for a drive that will be used for both Mac and Windows is to format it exFAT, and its actually easier to do it in Windows than on the Mac side. In Windows just right click on the drive and select Format. When the formatting window shows up under File System click on the pulldown menu and select exFAT, and then put a check next to Quick Format, label the drive, and then click on Start. If you want to do this on the Mac side. You would have to use Disk Utilit which is located in your Applications -> Utilities folder. In Disk Utility, on the left side will be a list of the drives, select the Toshiba Canivo and then on the right side of the window there will be a few tabs. Click onthe tab labeled Erase. Then under Format you would select exFAT, label the drive and then click on Erase. It would be easier, using Parallels, just to format the drive for 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)'. You can see it both in the Windows/Parallels and the Mac side. Leaving it formatted as NTFS is not going to allow you to access (write to) the drive unless you use third-party software.
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