![]() ![]() When you connect a Mac drive (HFS+ or APFS) to Windows… APFS is aimed to fix some core issues of HFS+ such as concurrent file system access and sparse file support. It was designed to support much larger files compared to HFS and also allowed for better space utilization.īut with the release of the new OS High Sierra, Mac introduced a new file system called APFS. HFS+ was introduced in 1998 as a successor of Mac’s first file system, HFS. If that’s not the case, your drive will be formatted with HFS+ or APFS file systems in most cases.Ī background on HFS+ and APFS file systems However, if you’ve foreseen that you are going to use a particular device on both Windows and Mac, then it will usually be formatted with exFAT, which is compatible with both these systems. So when you connect a Mac formatted (as in HFS+ or APFS) drive to Windows system, it will offer to erase it and format it in order to make it compatible. ![]() Windows systems, by default, cannot read from Mac formatted drives.
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