Transfering files from Mac to PC

ramgoat647 · Jan 29, 2014

I just recently purchased a new PC and would like to transfer all of my files from my Mac to PC. I have an external hard drive which is partitioned. One half is partitioned for Windows and the other half for OS X. I would like to do the following:

Internal Mac HDD --> external HDD (Windows partition)

External HDD (Mac partition) --> external HDD (Windows partition)

I was thinking of useing a USB jump drive but I have < 300GB of data to transfer and the largest USB I have is 16GB.

Any ideas?

ahmeday2012 · Jan 29, 2014

You need a portable hard drive that is 500GB or more that uses a usb port. You can buy from any local electronic store near you.

ramgoat647 · Jan 29, 2014

ahmeday2012 :

I have already bought one and it's coming soon. When I get it, what do I do? I there software I can download to the drive to make it readable / writable for both Windows and OS X?

ahmeday2012 · Jan 29, 2014

ramgoat647 :

Usually the portable hard drives are readable (most of them). If not, they WILL come with installation guide and a cd. Hope that helps.

k1114 · Jan 29, 2014

Most will be for pc which is ntfs which can be read by mac but it can't write. What you want is to format it as exfat. This is both read/write for both pc and mac. There is also fat and fat32 but these can be limited in size depending on what format software you are using. You can use the built in software to format it in either mac or pc.

ramgoat647 · Jan 29, 2014

k1114 :

Thanks for your answer. I will definitely do that, then.

Search

Transfering files from Mac to PC

ramgoat647

Honorable

k1114

ahmeday2012

Honorable

ramgoat647

Honorable

ahmeday2012

Honorable

k1114

Titan

ramgoat647

Honorable

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page