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geb724

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i am a pc user about to switch to imac for the very first time. i currently have 2 large NTFS hard drives installed on my pc. is there any way i can connect those to an imac to read and write data without losing any of the data on either drive?
 
cynics said:
Do you use Paragon?

I read their webpage and it seems perfect....too perfect.

Could I just attach a friends NTFS external and drag and drop movies, music, other files just like it was HFS+, FAT32, etc? That easy?
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I don't use it myself, because I have no need for it. But a lot of people here on the forums do use it and it appears to work well. Yes, once you install those drivers it is just drag-and-drop to the external drive.
 
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Weaselboy said:
I don't use it myself, because I have no need for it. But a lot of people here on the forums do use it and it appears to work well. Yes, once you install those drivers it is just drag-and-drop to the external drive.
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I'm the same way for the most part but there are very rare circumstances that it would make life a little easier and would add quite a bit of flexibility to my Mac.

Thanks for the reply I'll be curious if anyone else using it has any input.
 
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I have an INTERNAL 1.5tb seagate HDD and an INTERNAL 2.0tb WD HDD inStalled in my HP pc. I have lots of data, music, photos and videos stored on them that I need to have access to all the time. How can I permanently access all of that data off of each drive if I buy a Mac without transferring it to the Mac?
 
Might be worth mentioning a bit about filesystems:
- Apple HFS + and APFS are neither read nor write from Windows. These FS's are required for Mac things like booting, and Time Machine.
- Win FATnn is read and write from Mac, but may be other issues. For example, file size limitation of 4GB (think movies).
- Win NTFS is readable by Mac, but Macs cannot write to them. <- Paragon provides drivers to make this work fr Macs.
- Win exFAT is read and write from Mac.

Remember that solutions like Paragon, which I believe are good, is only part of the answer. You still need to connect (such as wi-fi) and get access permissions to work on both sides.
 
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