Re: OT (again) - data exchange with Mac

Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:24:36 +0100, "Synapse Syndrome"
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"Ric" <email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:44f2bd1a$0$2690$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Gonna move a load of stuff from XP to Mac OSX, possibly permanently.
I've about 60GB of data, currently stored on an internal SATA drive on the PC formatted as NTFS.

Too much to transfer to use network? It might take overnight to do it, but it would be the easiest way.


Seconded. Share it on the PC, mount it on the Mac, leave it copying
for several hours.

Or get an 80gig USB2 drive inna box, and use that (FAT32 format).


Hmmn, I just checked. Only my Windows 2003 server has the option to add the Appletalk protocol to networking. Maybe it can be installed on XP as well somehow?


You don't need Appletalk on the Windows end, the Mac talks SMB!

Cheers - Jaimie
cheers but basically i'm planning a (semi permanent) move from PC to mac.
mac will have internal small drive and i've already got a 250GB sata drive spare. want to mount this (and xfer data across) on the mac, so was going to use a sata->usb2/firewire enclosure.
whilst the mac can read NTFS i don't think it'll write it, so what format should the disk be in?

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