| here's the unifying solution!
on a windows pc (or in OS9) , format the drive into FAT32 (it may be called 'ms dos' or something).
now try it in OS X.
FAT32 is a fileing system that virtually any OS can read and write to. some drives are not formatted this way, and use a far more obscure filing system occasionally. windows now uses NTFS as it's main filing system, and Macos now uses HFS+ (Journalled), but both can read and write to FAT32, which is older and less advanced, but still works.
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