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If you don’t plan on using the drive for Time Machine, skip steps 5 through 11 below and continue with step 12.

The easiest way to do that is hit CMD and the spacebar at the same time and type in “Disk Utility” to find the program. How to format an external drive in OS X # However, if you want to use part of the drive for OS X’s Time Machine backups, you should do this from the Mac, since there’s an extra step to make the drive compatible for Time Machine. You can format the drive from either Mac or Windows. In this guide, we’re using exFAT instead of FAT32, another filesystem that both Windows and Mac can read and write to, because FAT32 has a maximum 4GB file size limit whereas exFAT can work with files as large as 16EB (exabytes). Get the latest news for Windows 11Here’s what’s coming with the new Windows 11 update