Transferring a terabyte of Data, NTFS to HFS

[justaregularjoe]

Hi, I'm a bit stuck and i need some ideas.

I currently have a desktop PC, but tomorrow I am buying a MacBook Pro.

I have ~800 GB of data on an internal hard drive on the PC, but I have to get it all to an external hard drive (2 TB) formatted as HFS+ so it'll play nicely with OS X.

So yeah, any ideas would help

CliffNotes: 800GB, NTFS internal to 2 TB external. HALP.

 

[GGJstudios]

FAT32

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• No individual file larger than 4GB.
• Maximum volume size: 2TB

NTFS

• Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
• Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write/Format NTFS from Leopard or Snow Leopard: Install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.
• To Read/Write/Format NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
• (Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard)
• Maximum volume size: 256TB

HFS/HFS+

• Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive
• To Read HFS (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer
• Maximum volume size: 2TB (HFS)
• Maximum volume size: 8EiB (HFS+)

 

[justaregularjoe]

Thanks very Much... I hadn't really thought about NTFS fuse, but now I am transferring files through MacDrive overnight.

Thanks