Hi: The 2ndary drive I'd like the use as storage, as well as access the content of the drive. The Internal drive that houses XP, I can reformat it and use as a backup. How do you tell which type of connection the internal dries have? On Jan 23, 2014, at 3:24 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are you trying to just recycle the space or are you trying to save what's on > the XP drives? If you just want to wipe them and re-use them for extra > storage on your Mac then you just need an external case. Whether it's USB or > Firewire depends on what you're connecting it to and how fast you want it to > go. The drives themselves are either IDE or SATA so you'll need to get an > external case that can connect to whatever drive type you have. I have some > old 250GB IDE drives in external Firewire cases which work just fine as > backup storage. > > CB > > On 1/22/14 10:13 PM, Alex Hall wrote: >> You can buy any enclosures and use the drives with no problems. However, the >> mac won't be able to write to them, only read from them. You'll have to >> either copy everything to a third drive, format the two, then copy it back, >> or copy everything to one drive, format it, copy everything to the newly >> formatted one, and format the other. Windows uses NTFS, and the Mac needs, I >> believe, Mac OS Extended. Both Windows and mac can read from each other's >> file systems, but neither can write to the other's. That's why I said the >> Mac can read your drives to copy the data off, but not write to them. So, >> you'll need to preserve your data somehow, then format the drives as the mac >> file system to make them Mac-only. If you want cross compatibility, go with >> FAT32, but note that files larger than 4gb will not be supported. >> On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:36 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi: >>> Yeah, i could. I just want to use those USB. The drives are still good. If >>> I couldn't use that internal one with the OS of Windows on it, I'd want to >>> figure out how to distroy it so no one could get access to my data. >>> >>> On Jan 22, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Chris Moore <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> You could also buy an external drive now and copy the data files to it >>>> from your XP machine before you get the Mini. I'm not sure whether Mac os >>>> reads the ntfs files system, but you could format the drive as fat32 to be >>>> on the safe side. >>>> >>>> Chris >>>> On Jan 22, 2014, at 7:52 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all: >>>>> I have an old XP machine with two internal hard drives. The main drive >>>>> runs XP and has files on it. I have a Seagate internal drive in the >>>>> machine as well. It's 250GB and is used to store data. In April when XP >>>>> is discontinued, I'm probably going to buy a Mac mini to replace that >>>>> desktop. Is there way I can buy a couple of drive enclosures to put >>>>> around those internal drives so I can use them on my mini to access the >>>>> data? Has anyone done this? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>>> email to [email protected]. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> [email protected] >> >> >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
