When DOS was born, popular hard drives only had 5MB or 10MB of storage space, which you could fill today with a single animated GIF. ![]() Most operating systems can read files in these old formats. They tend to use a version of Microsoft’s FAT file format, which dates back to the MS DOS (or IBM PC DOS) operating system used by the IBM PC in 1981. ![]() Macs and Windows machines do have their own preferred file formats for internal hard drives, but external hard drives don’t always ship with these pre-installed. The hard drives should not be a problem, unless your computers are very old. However, my Mac doesn’t recognise his hard drive, and his PC won’t recognise my hard drive. I bought a 4TB hard drive for my dad, and thought it would be easy to copy the files over so he could use them on his PC. ![]() I have a Mac and an external hard drive that includes some important family files.
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