Evening everyone,
My daughter has a mac air using lion. I just bought a 1tb 2.5" HD with an external enclosure. I want to transfer our home movies and family pic's from my windows 7 machine to this hard drive. My understanding is if I formatted the HD NTFS the mac can read the drive but not write to it. I bought a larger HD so she could transfer her data from her mac to this HD for safe keeping. Once she has the HD she will only be using it with her mac not a pc. Also I do not own a mac.
Question , Is there anyway I can get our data onto this HD and she also be able to write to it with her mac? Perhaps trying to format the HD with a mac file system? If that could be done using my pc would I be able to transfer my data to the HD? Fat 32 is not an option as most of the movies are greater then 4gigs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your help
My daughter has a mac air using lion. I just bought a 1tb 2.5" HD with an external enclosure. I want to transfer our home movies and family pic's from my windows 7 machine to this hard drive. My understanding is if I formatted the HD NTFS the mac can read the drive but not write to it. I bought a larger HD so she could transfer her data from her mac to this HD for safe keeping. Once she has the HD she will only be using it with her mac not a pc. Also I do not own a mac.
Question , Is there anyway I can get our data onto this HD and she also be able to write to it with her mac? Perhaps trying to format the HD with a mac file system? If that could be done using my pc would I be able to transfer my data to the HD? Fat 32 is not an option as most of the movies are greater then 4gigs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your help