Can I convert the files from my Seagate External Hard Drive for PC to a Mac?

Cheeseball

My Dell laptop computer that is only 2 years old has a bad hard drive and has been going out on me for the last few months. I think that it is now time to get a new computer. I have all my important files backed up onto a Seagate 500 GB External Hard Drive. My question is, if I get an Apple Mac computer, will I be able to transfer the files that are on the hard drive to the Mac? The computers that I am considering right now are the Apple Mac Desktop all in one or the HP Touchsmart 600 all in one. Has anyone done this conversion before?

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Yes. Your Mac will be able to at least read the hard drive. If the drive is formatted as FAT32, then your Mac can also write to it. Otherwise, to allow a Mac to write to an NTFS drive, then you'll need this: http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

My PC shuts down when I plug in my external (Mac formatted) hard drive with Windows 7?

Phil C

The PC is pretty new. DIdn't have the issue with XP. Is it a Windows 7 problems? I am running Mac Drive 8 to recognize the drive. I have Windows 7 x86. Any suggestions?

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Let microsoft find the drivers automatically.

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You will find a Mac will read windows easier than a PC will read Mac, My suggestion is use a FAT32 Format on the drive done on your PC.

Both your Mac & Pc can read this format without trouble

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why isnt my pc detecting my portable hard disk drive?

cjkate

I have an archos Jukebox and when I plug it into my computer the "unplug hardware" appears in the bottom right corner, but when I go to "My Computer" there is no extra drive detected. What do I do?

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click on "my computer" or whatever again. my pc doesn't recognize my camera when i connect it, when i try to detect it it's not there. when i try to detect it a 2nd time, it's there.

looking for a portable hard drive that works seamlessly between mac/pc. I work on both.?

trouble

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Pretty much any USB portable hard drive that is Plug-and-Play Compliant will work on both Macs and PCs, providing you use a file system that works on both. NTFS is the standard for PCs, but Macs can only read files in that file system, not write them. A file system that will work with both Macs and PCs is FAT32. You can format your hard drive to FAT32 using Windows, just google it. A recommended hard drive for you is this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822116161

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