Hello,
This is my first post to the mac forums. I hope someone here can help me. I took my old hard drive out when I sold my old windows PC because I didn't have time to back it up properly when I moved overseas. My wife has her Imac here so I bought an external hdd took out the drive in it then put my old drive in there. Now I tried looking through it to save what I wanted but some of the files wouldn't show up in Finder specifically some of the google chrome files like my favorites/bookmarks. I know they are supposed to be under userdata/username or some such but they just don't show up. So instead of going through everything (which I can't do since I can't see some stuff within Finder I should be able to do) I decided to just make an image of the disk using DiskUtility under applications/utils on the Mac. Then I switched out the old hdd for the new one that came with the ext drive. I tried extracting the image to the new drive but the format must have been incompatible because it wouldn't let me put anything on the drive. So I formated it to fat using the DiskUtility again and now I can put stuff on it. However the disk image is way over 4Gb or whatever the max of fat is. So I get an error 0. If I try copying the seperate files instead of the entire image and ignore the files that are too large ie HD movies I still get an error. I think it was error 36 something about I couldn't move some of the data. Anyways I think the original hdd was in NTFS.
Is there any way for me to just copy all the information from the old hdd to the new one including any info that the mac can't read? Is it just a limit of the built in copy/paste in the mac? Does the image I made of the HDD include all the info on it including what the mac couldn't see? Are there any free Mac programs out there that could accomplish what I want?
Please help me, I don't know how to use a Mac beyond basic point and click. I was using windows and a little Ubuntu and mac is new to me.
This is my first post to the mac forums. I hope someone here can help me. I took my old hard drive out when I sold my old windows PC because I didn't have time to back it up properly when I moved overseas. My wife has her Imac here so I bought an external hdd took out the drive in it then put my old drive in there. Now I tried looking through it to save what I wanted but some of the files wouldn't show up in Finder specifically some of the google chrome files like my favorites/bookmarks. I know they are supposed to be under userdata/username or some such but they just don't show up. So instead of going through everything (which I can't do since I can't see some stuff within Finder I should be able to do) I decided to just make an image of the disk using DiskUtility under applications/utils on the Mac. Then I switched out the old hdd for the new one that came with the ext drive. I tried extracting the image to the new drive but the format must have been incompatible because it wouldn't let me put anything on the drive. So I formated it to fat using the DiskUtility again and now I can put stuff on it. However the disk image is way over 4Gb or whatever the max of fat is. So I get an error 0. If I try copying the seperate files instead of the entire image and ignore the files that are too large ie HD movies I still get an error. I think it was error 36 something about I couldn't move some of the data. Anyways I think the original hdd was in NTFS.
Is there any way for me to just copy all the information from the old hdd to the new one including any info that the mac can't read? Is it just a limit of the built in copy/paste in the mac? Does the image I made of the HDD include all the info on it including what the mac couldn't see? Are there any free Mac programs out there that could accomplish what I want?
Please help me, I don't know how to use a Mac beyond basic point and click. I was using windows and a little Ubuntu and mac is new to me.