How to Use Apple External Hard Drive on Windows?

Can you Use a Mac External Hard Drive on a PC?

Want to use one external drive for both your Windows PC and your Mac machine? ... Windows uses NTFS while Mac OS uses HFS, and theyre incompatible with each other. However, you can format the drive to work with both Windows and Mac by using the exFAT filesystem.

How do I Convert my External Hard Drive from Mac to PC?

Connect the external hard drive to your Mac.
Drag the files you want to transfer to the external hard drives icon on your desktop.
Drag the hard drive icon to the Trash when the files have finished transferring.
Connect the hard drive to your Windows computer.

Can Windows Read a Mac-formatted External Hard Drive?

A hard drive formatted for use in a Mac has either an HFS or HFS+ file system. For this reason, a Macformatted hard drive is not directly compatible, nor readable by a Windows computer. The HFS and HFS+ file systems are not readable by Windows.

How do I Convert my Apple Hard Drive to Windows?

Rightclick in the unallocated space on the initialized disk and select New Simple Volume. Use the wizard to create a partition with the NTFS or FAT32 file system. The drive will now be formatted for use by Windows systems. There will be no space wasted by protected Mac partitions.

How to Read a Mac-Formatted Drive on a Windows PC

To use HFSExplorer, connect your Macformatted drive to your Windows PC and launch HFSExplorer. Click the “File” menu and select “Load File System From Device.” It will automatically locate the connected drive, and you can load it. Youll see the contents of the HFS+ drive in the graphical window.

How do I Connect my Mac Hard Drive to Windows?

Next, connect your Windows drive to the Mac. Open Finder, then click Go> Go to Folder, then type /Volumes/NAME where NAME is the name of your NTFS drive. Click Go to access your Windows disk. You should now be able to edit existing files and copy new ones here.

How to Read an External NTFS Windows Hard Drive on a Mac ...

Double click the new hard drive icon on the desktop. The contents of the external NTFSformatted hard drive are displayed. Drag files from the hard drive to copy them to the local Mac hard drive, or double click them to read them directly from the hard drive.

Can a Mac Read PC Files?

Macs can easily read PCformatted hard disk drives. Your old external Windows PC drive will work great on the Mac. Apple has built OS X Yosemite and some previous OS X releases with the ability to read from those disks just fine.

How do I Convert Windows Files to Mac?

Open Migration Assistant, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder .
Follow the onscreen prompts until youre asked how you want to transfer your information. Select the option to transfer from a Windows PC, then click Continue.
Select the icon representing your PC, then click Continue.