Fat32 External Hard drive copied to Macbook Pro

[bruceleeroy]

Hey everyone.
I had a quick question I was hoping someone could answer.

I finally got a Macbook pro and I have a My Book External HD with all my PC files on it. What's the easiest way to copy those files to my laptop?

Thanks

 

[spinnerlys]

If the external drive is formatted with NTFS or FAT32 won't matter, as Mac OS X is able to read both file systems, but can only write to FAT32 without a third party software like MacFuse + NTFS-3G for NTFS write capability.

You could also use a network to transfer files, if it isn't in the hundreds of gigabytes.

 

[bruceleeroy]

That worked perfectly thanks man

 

[spaceboots06]

If the external drive is formatted with NTFS or FAT32 won't matter, as Mac OS X is able to read both file systems, but can only write to FAT32 without a third party software like MacFuse + NTFS-3G for NTFS write capability.

You could also use a network to transfer files, if it isn't in the hundreds of gigabytes.

Just another note as well, you can't transfer individual files larger than 4gigs on a fat32.

so hd movies are a big no.