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1. #PARTITION A EXTERNAL HARD DRIVER FOR MAC MAC OS X#
2. #PARTITION A EXTERNAL HARD DRIVER FOR MAC MAC OS#

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. Some Linux distros can read it, Windows requires special File System Drivers which are mostly commercial.

#PARTITION A EXTERNAL HARD DRIVER FOR MAC MAC OS#

The second point is the bigger problem here: Mac OS Extended (HFS plus) is pretty much unique to Apple.

#PARTITION A EXTERNAL HARD DRIVER FOR MAC 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.