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formating pc hard drives for mac

hie i bought a power mac g4 on action without hard drive. can i use a hand hard drive from my pc

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Yes, this is possible. You will have to format it to run as a HFS Extended drive most likely. Depending on the situation NTFS might work but I would format it to be safe. You do this in Disk Utility.

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