Or format a drive to fat32 which allows reading and writing to the drive from both the mac and the windows environments.
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan Eickmeier Sent: Saturday, 7 August 2010 6:53 p.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: External HD Was going to suggest the same thing, since storage is getting cheaper and cheaper, even though there are ways that you could get a mac to both read and write to NTFS formatted drives. On Aug 7, 2010, at 2:36 AM, Justin Kauflin wrote: The Mac can read NTFS partitions, but out of the box, it can't write to them. With that said, it'd probably best if you were able to reformat the disc to the Mac format. In my opinion, go head and get another 1TB drive, as they just keep getting cheaper and cheaper, and have that Mac formatted. Then, you can copy the files over to the Mac formatted and have 2 copies of all your files. You can never back that stuff up enough:) Hope that helps Justin On Aug 7, 2010, at 2:10 AM, AndyBaracco wrote: i just realized that I posted this inquiry to the wrong list. it happens when you have been up since 4:15 AM. i am considering buying a mac. I have a Seagate 1 TB external USB HD that is about 3 quarters full of audio books, music, etc. it is formatted NTFS. Could i use this HD on a Mac, and what would i have to do first? Would it have to be reformatted and, if so, would i have to back up the media somewhere else and restore it when the reformat was accomplished? Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
