A practical way to make a U disk compatible with Mac and Windows

Hfs+ is not recognized in Windows, NTFS-formatted u disk, mobile hard disk plugged in on the Apple computer can only read and write. While the format of FAT32 can support two systems, but a single file is greater than 4GB on the rest of the dish.

So if Apple Mac OS X 10.6.5 system makes a significant upgrade: Support exFAT disk format, format into exfat format of u disk, mobile hard disk on Windows PC and Mac OS X system can read and write, and support more than single Individuals accumulate more than 4 GB of large files.

Below we will u disk, mobile hard disk format into exFAT format, as well as exFAT, FAT32, hfs+ three forms of the same as a U disk reading and writing speed test.

　　Apple Computer Mac OS X system to format u disk and removable hard disk into exFAT format

Click on the Apple Computer screen in the upper right corner of the magnifying glass button, Sportlight search "Disk Utility", in the Disk tool sidebar to select the format of the USB stick or removable hard disk partition, the right choice of "erase" tab, in the Format drop-down menu to choose exFAT can. As shown in the figure above.

　　Windows system to the U disk, mobile hard disk format into EXFAT format

Windows 7 and Vista default to support the EXFAT format, if it is an XP system, to download the KB955704 Patch: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang= Zh-cn&familyid=1cbe3906-ddd1-4ca2-b727-c2dff5e30f61

As for the exfat format of the U disk read and write speed, the following is a U disk on the same computer (my Macbook Pro) read and write speed test, test software for the previously introduced free software: Aja System test.

　　FAT32, hfs+, exfat format of u disk read and write speed test

Clockwise in turn is FAT32, hfs+, exfat format u disk read and write speed test results, not very good. So: only the U disk and a mobile hard disk partition (dedicated to the PC, Mac Exchange file) format into exFAT on the line.