Unformatting SD card with a professional Windows or Mac format recovery tool is the most reliable and easy thing you need to do. You know, it will scan your format SD card to find and recover data from formatted SD card, you need without many efforts.

Hi I bought a windows 8.1 tablet (hasn't arrived yet). I want to use SD card for data migration from my Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) Macbook Pro to Windows 9.1 tablet. I thought SD card just do the job fine, but I found on the Internet that SD card have to be formatted by Win 8.1 which of course a Mac won't be able to read. The win tab I bought has only micro usb as other connection possibility. I know I could connect a hard drive to both Mac and Wintab but for the convenience I want to use SD card. I want to move from Mac mainly music, video and some pictures. Could anyone clarify the data transfer from Mac using SD card?

Many many thanks. Hello Mossphlox, Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community forum. As per the issue description it seems that you want to move music, videos, and pictures from your Mac computer to Windows computer through SD card. If SD card slot is available in your computer then you can easily use SD card for transferring data. I would suggest you to go through the links provided below and see if it helps you to resolve your query.

If issue still persist I would recommend you to contact Apple support. You may refer to the links provided below to get in touch with Apple Support. Hope the information provided is helpful.

Do let us know if you have any more concerns related to Windows. Ramesh Kumar.

There are many reasons why you may want to format an external HDD or small flash drive. For instance: • You brought a new unformatted hard drive • If the drive is not properly formatted, it won’t work • You want to use your external hard drive in both MAC, PC and Linux (use FAT32) • Before you sell your SDcard or Pendrive, you should format it to erase its data • Your camera’s SD card (FAT32) can only hold a file up to 4GB file.

To get larger file size format it to exFAT. Visual studio for mac for .net development. Warming: Formating a drive, also erase its data.

Although you can still get it back, but it’s much harder after formatting. So if you can’t afford losing you data, take backup. NTFS: This is windows propriety file system. Most external drives come preformatted in NTFS so that they can be used easily with Windows.

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However, NTFS drives are read only in MAC, but you can get write access by using software like. It also works in Linux.

And to support NTFS on Android use. HFS+: This MAC propriety file system and is used in iOS and MAC. If you format your external hard drive to HFS, you can use it on MAC and Linux (by removing journaling). However, to use it on Windows you can (read only). Ext4: This is a default file system for linux OS (including Raspberry Pi).

To read an ext4 drive on Windows, you can and OSXfuse for MAC. However, I have not really use this format much, so we just skip it. FAT32: This oldest file system and work with all OS i.e. Windows, MAC, Linux, Android, even TV, and PS3 etc.

This is why it’s used in all small flash drive. Although it lacks all modern features and comes with 4 GB limit for single file size. ExFAT: is the extended version of exFAT.

It works fine with Windows and MAC (all the modern version). For Android, you can use Stick mount app (root needed). However being a windows propriety file system, it does not play well in open source environment. But unlike FAT32, it does not have 4GB limit for single file size. Thus making it ideal for SDcards of the high-end camera. How to Format an External Hard drive or Pen drive Now that we know the good and bad about every file system, let see how to format a drive in Windows, MAC, and Linux.

Windows Formatting a drive on Windows is quite simple. Plug in your external HDD to the USB port of your computer> then go to my computer > find your external drive > right-click it > and select format. A new window will open, select the desired file system, keep the allocation unit size to default and check mark quick format (or it will take more time).