Ethernet connection/data transfer from PC to Mac

[locustwounded]

I just purchased an external HD for my Powerbook G4.
Im trying to transfer my old media from my PC to my Mac.
I've had difficulties partitioning a section of the hd on my pc that will be compatible with mac because the pc will only partition in one format (NTSF I believe).

So my questions are:

Can I connect the two via ethernet?

Or is there some other solution I have not come across?

I've searched for an answer but most help instructions are not according to the exact specs I'm dealing with.

I'm running Windows XP on the PC and Osx 10.4.11 on my 1.5 Ghz Powerbook G4

Thank you in advance

 

[enberg]

Can I connect the two via ethernet?

If you have a LAN, the easiest way is probably to turn on sharing on the PC and connect via SMB from the Mac. Otherwise you'll need to get a crossover cable.

 

[old-wiz]

Most modern computers don't need crossover cables anymore; they are smart enough to figure it out.

 

[ynk1121]

I know Leopard can read a NTFS partition but can't write to it (not sure when that started). You'll want the drive formatted in FAT for both to read and write to it. Plug the drive into the mac, go to Applications-->Utilities-->Disk Utilities. Click on the external drive from the left side choices. Click on the erase tab. CHOOSE MS DOS FORMAT. Click erase. Once it's erased it should work on both computers.

 

[kny3twalker]

Windows can format the Partition to fat32 file system as well.

 

[locustwounded]

Solution!

Thank you ynk1121. That worked like a dream.

 

[Baffles]

FAT32 sucks. It is unreliable, and inefficient. You're better off instaling macfuse/ntfs-3g or something similar to enable rw access to the NTFS partition from OS X, in my opinion. That's what I would do.