fool newbie question re: transfering files

[bravosierra]

Before my pc died I backed my files up onto a seagate freeagent external hard drive. Some months later my macbook is pretty full and I need to move some files onto my hard drive but - of course - I can't write to the drive because it's ntfs.

I need to reformat the drive but don't want to lose the data. I don't have enough space on my mac to store everything while I reformat. I have another PC I could use for storage though.

So... I figure I copy stuff from the portable hard drive onto my PC. I then reformat the hard drive to hfs+. But then I won't be able to move the files back to the portable hard drive, right?

My quuestion, assuming everything makes sense so far, is whether I should:
a) use some fancy means of copying files to the hard drive
b) copy files from the pc to my mac (how?)
c) burn many dvds


Any help appreciated.

 

[BlueRevolution]

Do you need to reformat? If you're only going to be using it with your MacBook, just install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G and you're good to go.

 

[Tomorrow]

What size portable drive are we talking about? Would it be easier to just buy a new portable drive, say 1 Gb for around $100 or so?

 

[bravosierra]

Do you need to reformat? If you're only going to be using it with your MacBook, just install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G and you're good to go.

Wow. 25 minutes after posting my problem is solved. I downloaded both and am happily shifting my files. That was so simple.

Many thanks.