Migrating External Hard Drive

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So this weekend I migrated to the new macbook from a pc laptop and am figuring out all the cool stuff the mac can do.

First thing - how do I transfer all my photos and music from my Seagate external hard drive which was written with Windows (not FAT32 formatted). I tried connecting to the macbook and it did not show the drive/files.

Second thing - After this fiasco, I tried connecting the hard drive to my PC - and it does not recognize the hard drive now. Please help - is this data recoverable !!

Appreciate all inputs. Thanks.
 
Well, you should be able to read from the drive in order to copy your stuff from the external hard drive. The only problem would be writing to it since NTFS doesn't have read-write abilities in any other operating system other than Windows (MS's fault, not the competition's).

Is it possible to do the connection through Firewire? If so, that would probably be your best bet instead of USB 2.0.
 
rnuts said:
So this weekend I migrated to the new macbook from a pc laptop and am figuring out all the cool stuff the mac can do.

First thing - how do I transfer all my photos and music from my Seagate external hard drive which was written with Windows (not FAT32 formatted). I tried connecting to the macbook and it did not show the drive/files.

Second thing - After this fiasco, I tried connecting the hard drive to my PC - and it does not recognize the hard drive now. Please help - is this data recoverable !!

Appreciate all inputs. Thanks.
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If you still have the Windows computer, see if you can repair and recover the files on the drive with the Windows computer. Then once Windows has access to the drive, turn on Windows Sharing on the Mac: Apple Menu > System Preferences > Sharing. Once you turn on Windows sharing, at the bottom of the Sharing pref pane, you'll see an address that can be used for windows to connect to the Mac. It looks something like this: \\192.168.0.4\yourname

Make sure the Windows machine is connected to the same network as the Mac and then open IE on the Win machine. Type in the Mac's Windows sharing address and press return. You'll be prompted to enter your Mac password. Once you've done that, you can use Windows to copy over any files to the mac.
 
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