moving from PC to Mac (external hard drive question)

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Jun 5, 2012 | 06:37 PM

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how big a file can exfat handle? our other computers are running XP and newer

Larger than any individual hard drive could hold. It can scale pretty large AFAIK.

Jun 6, 2012 | 09:00 PM

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Hmmm I'm doing the same thing right now - so I don't want to format it in HFS?

Jun 6, 2012 | 10:08 PM

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Hmmm I'm doing the same thing right now - so I don't want to format it in HFS?

HFS+ is your best bet if the drive will be used exclusively on macs. Otherwise you'll want to use exFAT.

Jun 7, 2012 | 08:11 AM

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question, i have a 2 TB external with about 1tb of info on it, not sure how i'd port it over to something...can I partition it without having to reformat the whole thing?

Jun 7, 2012 | 08:44 PM

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I tried to format it exFAT but it said the drive cannot be formatted... FML. Time to go buy another one.

Jun 7, 2012 | 09:26 PM

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question, i have a 2 TB external with about 1tb of info on it, not sure how i'd port it over to something...can I partition it without having to reformat the whole thing?

You'll have to move all the data off the drive, otherwise it will be lost when formatting. No way around that unfortunately.

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I tried to format it exFAT but it said the drive cannot be formatted... FML. Time to go buy another one.

Try formatting it on another computer, that kind of thing happens all the time, and usually is nothing more than an error (unless the drive is failing).