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Sep 23, 2010

I have Windows at work and I have Mac at Home always I need to move files from one computer to the other so I want to buy a Portable USB Hard Drive (500GB) to do that, How I must format this Hard Drive in order to move files between Mac and Windows without problems.

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I can access all partitions when running the MAC OS.
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