What are my options with a Mac mini M1 to attach and view a 1 TB external drive full of stuff that was created in windows 10? ...pics, audio files, a few videos, etc.....I understand that apparently the option to dual boot with bootcamp is off the table with the M1....at least for now....and I'd rather not pay a monthly subscription for parallels...Would be nice if you could just drop a driver or file onto the drive and presto, all your windows files are now magically readable on the mac mini LOL
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Options for viewing almost a ful 1tb external drive of windows stuff
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not sure…NTSF maybe? …it does show up as a device on the Mac mini but show anything in it
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I'll have to double check when I get home...I had it attached for a bit but disconnected it...I'll re-check
My advice is...
- Get the pc up and running again
- Connect the drive to it and determine the format
- If it IS NTFS, the easiest way to move data would be:
- Leave it connected to the PC for now.
- Get ANOTHER drive. It could be a smaller hard drive, or even a USB flashdrive of sufficient capacity
- Format it to ExFAT, then take the empty drive over to the Mac and be sure it mounts on the desktop
- Now begin copying the stuff you want to move from the NTFS drive to the ExFAT drive. Don't try to "do it all at once" -- do the more important things first.
- I would concentrate on specific "areas", such as getting music moved, getting pics moved, etc.
- Leave the pc set up until you've got the Mac where you want it...
- Get the pc up and running again
- Connect the drive to it and determine the format
- If it IS NTFS, the easiest way to move data would be:
- Leave it connected to the PC for now.
- Get ANOTHER drive. It could be a smaller hard drive, or even a USB flashdrive of sufficient capacity
- Format it to ExFAT, then take the empty drive over to the Mac and be sure it mounts on the desktop
- Now begin copying the stuff you want to move from the NTFS drive to the ExFAT drive. Don't try to "do it all at once" -- do the more important things first.
- I would concentrate on specific "areas", such as getting music moved, getting pics moved, etc.
- Leave the pc set up until you've got the Mac where you want it...
that sounds reasonable...I do have a 128 gig unused flash drive I could setup...just to confirm, after formatting the flash drive for ExFAT, take it back to the Windows pc and start copying from old , full NTFS drive to ExFAT and do this on the Windows machine?
Interesting. I wonder where/when the support got left behind — Big Sur in general or the Apple Silicon transition.
Mac OS X/macOS has/had read-only NTFS support for awhile.
www.techradar.com
However, I am indeed seeing or rather not seeing any NTFS support on an M1 Mac. macOS 11.5.2 and have the same missing partition as well as error message when manually commanding to mount the drive in Disk Utility as shown by the following poster on the Apple discussion boards.
discussions.apple.com
Mac OS X/macOS has/had read-only NTFS support for awhile.
How to use NTFS drives on a Mac
Are you wanting to use NTFS drives on a Mac? We walk you through several options to configure your Mac to work with Windows-formatted drives
However, I am indeed seeing or rather not seeing any NTFS support on an M1 Mac. macOS 11.5.2 and have the same missing partition as well as error message when manually commanding to mount the drive in Disk Utility as shown by the following poster on the Apple discussion boards.