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trudd
Jan 17, 2007, 05:33 PM
A buddy of mine became a switcher today. I'm wondering what is the best way to transfer the files from his PC to the blackbook?

He has an external HD that is formatted FAT-32. I know OS X formats external HDs differently, but will OS X still read FAT-32?

If not, what is the best way to transfer the old data? How would I do that over the network?



mkrishnan
Jan 17, 2007, 05:36 PM
Read my guide (http://guides.macrumors.com/Drives_and_Filesystems), my friend...

The short answer is that OS X can read and write to a FAT-32 drive as is.