![]() Below, we’ll show you how to set up a USB drive as exFAT for both Windows and Mac. That file system is called exFAT, and it’s designed for flash media cross-platform compatibility. If you’re frequently using both Macs and PCs with the same drive, the ideal solution is to configure a USB drive with a file system that both operating systems can read. And likewise, if you format a USB drive as NTFS on Windows, Macs can read it but not write to it (although there are some ways around it). So here’s the problem: If you format a USB drive as APFS on a Mac, Windows 10 won’t read it without third-party tools (and will actually ask to format it). Windows 10 uses a file system called NTFS, and macOS currently uses APFS by default. A file system determines how an operating system writes data to a hard disk or a USB drive. Windows 10 and macOS use two different file systems by default. Here’s how to format a USB stick to work on both systems. ![]() So when it comes time to transfer files between them on a USB stick, you’ll need to make special arrangements. ![]() By default, Windows and Mac file systems don’t play well together.
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