We've walked through how to clone your hard drive in both Mac OS X and Windows. Without the encryption key, the average thief will never be able to make sense of the data. For an easy fix, some people fully encrypt the hard drive and throw it away. Try it and you may have luck with this command line. If Disk Utility can't repair external hard drive and your hard drive is not readable by your Mac computer still, there is an alternative way called FSCK command that can repair your external hard drive.The PS4 has two ports on the front of the console the Pro has two on the front and a third on the rear. Connect the drive to one of the USB 3.0 ports. Here's how to connect the external HDD.As he is a Windows user, I guess his hard drive is formatted for Windows as So, please help me on how can I transfer this files from my Mac and if I do format it to work with the Mac, will it work for Windows later? My friend wanted some files to be transferred to his external hard drive from my Mac.