Hey guys,
I'm going to try to simplify this as much as possible:
I have a friend with a Mac (at least X 10.4) who wants to share a relatively large iTunes music collection with me (~350GB). I am working on a PC (Vista SP1) and I would very much like to be able to have this collection shared with me. I recently purchased a Seagate GoFlex 3TB HDD to make this possible. I am no guru when it comes to the incompatibilities between Mac and PC, but I do understand that Mac does not read or write NTFS (although the box the HDD came in says there is an NTFS driver for Mac pre-loaded?). After researching a bit, it looks as if I have a couple options: formatting my HDD in exFAT, or installing a third party program to allow the Mac to write NTFS onto my HDD. If possible, I would not like to have to download anything onto my friends's Mac, which may eliminate the second option- I don't really know. The other issue from what I understand is that 3TB HDDs cannot be formatted in their entirety in exFAT. So I suppose my question is this: Is my only option to partition my HDD partially in exFAT in order to make this file transfer happen, or are there other options that I am unaware of? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! 😀
Reed
I'm going to try to simplify this as much as possible:
I have a friend with a Mac (at least X 10.4) who wants to share a relatively large iTunes music collection with me (~350GB). I am working on a PC (Vista SP1) and I would very much like to be able to have this collection shared with me. I recently purchased a Seagate GoFlex 3TB HDD to make this possible. I am no guru when it comes to the incompatibilities between Mac and PC, but I do understand that Mac does not read or write NTFS (although the box the HDD came in says there is an NTFS driver for Mac pre-loaded?). After researching a bit, it looks as if I have a couple options: formatting my HDD in exFAT, or installing a third party program to allow the Mac to write NTFS onto my HDD. If possible, I would not like to have to download anything onto my friends's Mac, which may eliminate the second option- I don't really know. The other issue from what I understand is that 3TB HDDs cannot be formatted in their entirety in exFAT. So I suppose my question is this: Is my only option to partition my HDD partially in exFAT in order to make this file transfer happen, or are there other options that I am unaware of? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! 😀
Reed