I am new to the Apple World and want to use my external hard drive on my Macbook Pro and Desktop HP PC ? It is currently formatted in a Mac way , but now it doesn't work on my HP . I want to be able to use it on both of my devices as I have information on it which I need for working on both of the devices . I hope somebody can help me , because my nearest Apple Store is an hours drive from me .
Thanks in advance.
How do I format my external hard drive so that I am able to use it on my Macbook Pro and HP PC?
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- 3+ months ago by DanielaJan
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DIfferent OS require that a drive is configured to suit that OS. You should be able to partion the drifve so that one partition is apple OS and the other is Win OS but that is not a good idea. You're better off buying another extHD and sourcing one of them for the specific OS. If you can afford to buy an apple mac (and god knows why you'd even want one) then you can afford to buy another extHD.
Thnaks for the help .
I have an iPhone and iPad , so it would have been stupid to get a samsung laptop for example .
I will then just have to buy a new hard drive .
Thanks .