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My Passport for Mac compatibility with Windows

Hello,
I have an older Passport for Mac and i would like tyo kmow if a Windows computer will be able to read files from it. If someon e could please help, it would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
JRGt12

Hi,

For a hard drive to be able to be read from and written to on both a Windows and macOS computer, it must be formatted to exFAT. If your drive is formatted in HFS+ file system, it can’t be read by a Windows PC.

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