Windows External HD with Mac???

[JB007TLD]

Hello,

I will be making the switch soon. The forums have been very helpful in answering questions. However I do have one question that I have not seen posted.

I currently have a Maxtor 750gig external HD. I have all of my music and videos on the drive.

When I get my Mac, I dont want to copy these files to the computer itself.

But I know from trying to copy files to the drive from a buddys mac that the drive is not formated for mac and will not copy the files.

Does anyone have suggestions for the easiest way to transisition?

Would the folks at the Apple store be able to do it? Thinking of buying my Mac from Amazon to avoid sales tax, if I went that route what would they charge to do it?

Any help would be great. Thanks.

 

[kastenbrust]

If you want an external hard drive to work on Windows and Mac it needs to be formatted in FAT32

 

[BlueRevolution]

Or you could install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G for read/write support of NTFS on your Mac. Or you could install MacDrive for read/write support of HFS+ (the default Mac filesystem) on Windows.

 

[VPrime]

You can read from a NTFS drive just fine (copy from windows drive to mac).

Or you can use macfuse+NTFS as mentioned. Other alternative is Paragon NTFS.