Re: OT (again) - data exchange with Mac

Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:26:53 +0100, Ric
<email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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.

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.


Righto.

There's no non-destructive way of converting the 250gig drive from
NTFS to HFS+. You don't want to use FAT, really.

The best way with the kit specified above is to leave the 60gig data
on the PC, get a SATA-to-usb/fw external case, install the 250gig
drive in it, mount it on the Mac and format it HFS+, then network copy
the data across.

If you haven't got enough disks to do that, then get another disk.
40quid will sort out all the horrible ways you could lose that data.


whilst the mac can read NTFS i don't think it'll write it, so what format should the disk be in?


Journaled HFS+, definitely.

Finally - which model Mac? You should get an external enclosure that
you can boot off if you need to, most can boot from firewire but some
only from USB.

Cheers - Jaimie
cheers. think what i'm going to do is get the macbook, upgrade the drive to 100gb 7200 seagate momentus and that'll cope with os x plus my mp3s. then get external decent sata->usb enclosure and put my 250gb ntfs drive in it, copy all mp3s to the internal drive, then wipe the 250gb disk and partition as a fat32 partition (handy for windows machines) and a mac hfs journalled partition for the majority for editing video. think this'll be neatest way.

ric
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