Backed up PC files on NTFS HDD, and getting a Mac

[m7ammed]

Hello everyone, I'm new to these forums so hopefully I'm posting this in the correct forum. I sold my Sony Viao last week and copied all my important files on a 250 GB WD Mybook drive. Now the thing is formated in NTFS and I know that NTFS is a windows thing. I have some video/pictures/music and documents(excel/word) that I would like to move to my Macbook Pro which I will be buying next week. Whats the best way to do this? would really appreciate your help. I think I have around 50-60 GBs that I need to move.

 

[GGJstudios]

To Read/Write NTFS from Leopard: Install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.

To Read/Write NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
(Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard)

 

[VPrime]

By default you can READ NTFS drives.
If you want to write to it look at the above post.

 

[m7ammed]

By default you can READ NTFS drives.
If you want to write to it look at the above post.

so I would be able to copy my files into the new MBP to work on them with no issues, right?

 

[BlueRevolution]

Right.