Seagate external USB harddrive

i just purchased a Seagate external USB harddrive. in the manual, they say they do not recommend using the HD "to share data between windows and macintosh operating systems". they say i should initialize it for a Mac OS.
i did see a post here that said "If you want to use it on both Mac OS and Windows it needs to be formatted in FAT32 to allow reading and writing from both systems."
has anyone had any experience with this situation? any comments or instructions are welcome
ahmo1
imac

Welcome to the discussions!
I looked at Seagate's site and couldn't find any reference to not being able to use a drive between Macs and PCs. I really cannot think of a reason why you can't, unless they just do not want to be responsible for supporting that type of use.

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