Windows - With the advent of Windows NT, Microsoft moved their optimized drive format to something called NTFS (New Technology File System). One is for Windows, one is for Mac, and one crosses the two (but with its own limitations). NTFS, HFS+, FAT - These are the primary formats that are in use today by PC users. So I thought I’d present a short primer on the formats hard drives use with and between these two primary operating systems. I get this question about once a year from my father-in-law. When you work for a storage solutions company you get a lot of questions from people about hard drive formats - especially about which formats are compatible across the most common operating system platforms, Windows and Mac.
