OK, before everyone fires off the odd missive about how I should do a massive 'search' before starting a new thread...I DID, and still have a question.
I have my hand on the panic button as we speak since I hadn't taken the time, and many discs, to burn backups of the data including many hundreds of photos that were on the hard drive of my old PC before hitting the 'format' button.
What I DID DO was backup both hard drives to my LaCie 500GB external HD that I use with Time Machine on my iMac. I created separate files on the external called 'H' drive, 'D' drive, etc. These contained all the data from the respective PC hard drives. Since the PC was part of my home network and all files were 'shared' I simply 'dragged and dropped' the files into the LaCie drive mounted on my iMac desktop.
Now when I try to access them from the iMac I get an error box saying "Connection failed. The server may not exist or it is not operational at this time. Check the server name or IP address and your network connection and try again". There is an "OK" box at the bottom.
So I unplugged the LaCie from the Airport Extreme and plugged it directly into a USB port on the iMac to preclude the IP address thing. No change.
When I click on "OK", I get another box saying "The alias 'H' could not be opened, because the original item cannot be found". My choices are 'Delete Alias', Fix Alias, or OK'. When I click on 'OK' or 'Fix Alias', the box goes away but nothing else happens. At least not anything good happens...
See line above re: Panic Button.
Have I lost all my data, most importantly the photos, etc? Or is it some kind of 'fat 32' or some other file format that the iMac cannot open?
HELP...PLEASE, my wife is ready to kill me if I don't kill myself. This whole transition part of moving to Mac has been trying, to say the least...
Jim
I have my hand on the panic button as we speak since I hadn't taken the time, and many discs, to burn backups of the data including many hundreds of photos that were on the hard drive of my old PC before hitting the 'format' button.
What I DID DO was backup both hard drives to my LaCie 500GB external HD that I use with Time Machine on my iMac. I created separate files on the external called 'H' drive, 'D' drive, etc. These contained all the data from the respective PC hard drives. Since the PC was part of my home network and all files were 'shared' I simply 'dragged and dropped' the files into the LaCie drive mounted on my iMac desktop.
Now when I try to access them from the iMac I get an error box saying "Connection failed. The server may not exist or it is not operational at this time. Check the server name or IP address and your network connection and try again". There is an "OK" box at the bottom.
So I unplugged the LaCie from the Airport Extreme and plugged it directly into a USB port on the iMac to preclude the IP address thing. No change.
When I click on "OK", I get another box saying "The alias 'H' could not be opened, because the original item cannot be found". My choices are 'Delete Alias', Fix Alias, or OK'. When I click on 'OK' or 'Fix Alias', the box goes away but nothing else happens. At least not anything good happens...
See line above re: Panic Button.
Have I lost all my data, most importantly the photos, etc? Or is it some kind of 'fat 32' or some other file format that the iMac cannot open?
HELP...PLEASE, my wife is ready to kill me if I don't kill myself. This whole transition part of moving to Mac has been trying, to say the least...
Jim
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