I am about to purchase my first iMac but wanted to find out if it will be possible to access an external hard drive that I used for my PC from the iMac. I used to hard drive to save dslr photos and videos from my flip cam. Will I be able to plug this into the iMac via USB and retrieve the photos and videos? I no longer will be using the PC to access any of the information on the ext hard drive. Thanks
Transferring Photos and Video from PC External Hard Drive to iMac
- Thread starter djudkins
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If the drive is formated FAT32 no problem at all. I believe you can still access the files but not write to the drive if it is formatted NTFS.
I did the same thing when I switched and still use the external drive with my Mac.
How can I tell if it is FAT32 formatted?
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Assuming you haven't purchased the Mac yet.
Attach the drive to your PC. Open a command prompt and type in "chkdsk D:" (no quotes) or whichever drive letter the external drive is assigned.
The system will respond back with the type of file system and some other information about checking the drive.
Attach the drive to your PC. Open a command prompt and type in "chkdsk D:" (no quotes) or whichever drive letter the external drive is assigned.
The system will respond back with the type of file system and some other information about checking the drive.
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