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exFAT or NTFS

I just purchased a WD MyBook external hard drive which is formatted in exFAT. I currently have Windows 10 for my HP laptop. Which format should I use? I have never reformatted a hard drive before. Is this something that is not too difficult for a non tech person to do? I do know reformating will erase all the current files off of the drive, is there any way that I can save the files that came with this?

What are the pros and cons of these formats?

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You can leave the drive as exFAT formatted. Which later you can also use the drive on Mac or Android or Linux systems.

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