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HorizonBloom
Asked: 2018-06-23 08:56:22 +0800 CST

Can I use a formatted external hard drive on Windows? [duplicate]

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I want to format a new external hard drive from Ubuntu and was wondering can I later use it on my windows system to transfer files?

hard-drive external-hdd windows-8

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  1. Yes you can use it later provided that the file system is FAT32. I have tried three file systems including NTFS and I was only able to access the drive on Xubuntu, Windows 10 and Hisense TV using FAT32.

    HTH

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