Simon C

I have n External HDD on my PC (formated to NTFS) which needs changing over to my Mac.

Will the Mac read it like this or will I have to reformat the disk?


I'm very nervous about this as its my photo archive and its the backup I'm playing with now, once its on the Mac all data will be copied to the new raid system.

Unfortuantly I need to do the swap first as the pc its currently attached to is evolving to the raid array. And no I can't burn it to DVD as its 103gb!!! But do have 2 other networked HDD I can do a data dump to.

Markus

Hello Simon,
How are you planning on connecting the disk to the mac? What OS are you running on the Mac?

I know that Mac OS X 10.4.10 (probably all 10.4.x versions as well) can mount NTFS formatted disks, however they will be mounted read-only. On my mac I'm using Boot Camp, so I have an NTFS partition and it quite happily sits on my OS X desktop in read-only mode and I can copy files from it should I wish with no problems at all.

If I was going to do this then I'd probably get an external enclosure, USB and/or Firewire, whack the disk in the enclosure and then hook it up to the Mac.

Simon C

Ooops my bad. Hould have said Tiger for the momment and firewire 400.

I need it to be able to write to the disk as well as read so looks like its a reformat job.

ScoobyDoo555

I've encouraged my students this year to buy ext HDDs...... all NTFS!!

We got around it by doing a class on formatting drives!

DAn

Markus

Before reformatting, have a read of this as it does mention how you may be able to use utilities to mount the drive read/write.

I would recommend caution when doing this though as it may cause issues, and as you are trying this with valuable data, it may not be the best idea.

Simon C

I'm having to play musical folders


The last 18 months of photo's is 103gb!!!


I need my raid server!!!

Simon C

Well after alot of jiggery pokery with folders I'm back with no data loss on Mac

Although I now have to work out how to get 2 macs to see each others hardrive via the wireless router (g4 powerbook on wireless and mini on wired)

Markus

Go into System Preferences on each machine, pop into Sharing and enable Filesharing. Then switch to the Finder and from the Go menu select "Network" This should allow you to browse the network and it should display your other machines which you'll be able to connect to.

Simon C

Thanks Markus Worked a treat

Its been a longggggggggggggggggg day. Ended up ripping out all the cables and rewiring the entire setup, inc network cables, powerlines etc.

Still have something like 14 apps to install.

Markus

No problem at all Simon

I'm having an interesting day here. I want to update Boot Camp to v2.0, and you need to pop in the 10.5 DVD to do this, thing is, I don't have it on DVD, I only have a .dmg file, so I'm having to remember how to create ISO files via Disk Utility (use the "CD/DVD Master" option, and change the extension from .cdr to .iso) and then make an ISO from the dmg, then fire up boot camp and mount the ISO and then get things upgraded.

I know the simple solution would be to burn it to DVD DL, but I don't have any DL disks and didn't get a chance to go out and get any today.