PC to Mac iTunes Libr. via Maxtor One Touch Ext. drive

PC to Mac iTunes Libr.?? via Maxtor One Touch Ext. drive

Hello,

My gf recently got a MacBook OS x 10.5.8

My old compaq is slow and out of date. I have my iTunes library (as well as some video and photo files) stored on the Maxtor One Touch Two 100 G capacity, with around 60 gigs of music. It's formatted in NTFS, however.

Am I to understand correctly that if I want to migrate my music files to the Mac, the external hard drive must first be formatted as FAT 32? This presents a problem though, because I would have to get another external hard drive, format that to FAT 32, and then mount that to the Mac, and move the library.

Is this the only way?

I also believe that NTFS is read only, but does that mean I can't move the music files anyway?

Final problem is that when I even plugged in the Maxtor to the mac as an experiment, nothing happened. I downloaded and installed a driver but still nothing. On my PC when the Maxtor is initially turned on I have to enter a password to unlock it, but I can't find any way to disable this feature. But is this why it didn't even mount on the mac?

Please help! My musical life depends on it!

Thanks,
Lear

jinenjo said:

Am I to understand correctly that if I want to migrate my music files to the Mac, the external hard drive must first be formatted as FAT 32?

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No. You are copying files FROM the NTFS drive TO the Mac drive, so only the Mac drive needs "write" access. You're good to go.

Final problem is that when I even plugged in the Maxtor to the mac as an experiment, nothing happened. I downloaded and installed a driver but still nothing. On my PC when the Maxtor is initially turned on I have to enter a password to unlock it, but I can't find any way to disable this feature. But is this why it didn't even mount on the mac?

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Ah, yes, now that "feature" MUST be disabled before you can move the files over. Check the documentation on that drive.

Thank you. It worked. I don't know why, but I couldn't find the "disable security" mode before. That's all it took.

Salud,
LB