WOT: windows drive on Mac Computer

RZ wrote on 12/27/2012, 10:45 AM

My daughter has about 30 Gb of data, pics, videos etc. on an external windows formatted drive. Recently she migrated to iMac. How can we access the windows drive? Thanks

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rraud wrote on 12/27/2012, 11:04 AM

A number of ways...
- An external USB drive should work with a Mac or PC, if it's a boot drive, boot the Mac first before plugging the drive in.
- Burn the files to a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM.
- Copy the files to a Thumbdrive or other removable media device would be the easiest.
The best IMO, would be a USB external drive which could also serve as a secondary or back-up drive.

GlennChan wrote on 12/27/2012, 1:21 PM

Another way is to transfer the files over a network to the Mac. Then re-format the drive as FAT32. Then put the files back on.

*I believe that newer versions of the Mac OS can read (but not write) to storage formatted with NTFS.

2- Yet another method is to use MacDrive, but there are a few applications like Steam and Visual Studio that don't work properly with it.