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- mid 2012 13" MBP i5
If anyone reading this has seen my posts before you know that I store everything on an external 500GB hard drive. After Christmas i will be ordering a base line 13" macbook pro. non retina.
That will be a huge step up from my computer so if you have seen any of my previous posts then thank you for helping me with the RAM ideas but I'll upgrade later when I need to, for now I just need to see how much difference in speed there is.
My question is really about my hard drive. I run ubuntu 10.04, its a long story. so i have everything stored on an external HD. Only because i cannot store anything on my comp. I have been told i will need to install a compatibility layer for ext2 and ext3 drives.
Here is the Q: how can i tell if my hard drive is an EXT2 or EXT3. Can OSX mountain lion read such drives? Also my father has an old PC with windows XP service pack 2 on it and it will read the hard drive just fine, does that mean the drive is formatted for windows? i even get a system volume information file and a trash 1000 file on the drive whenever i go back to my comp.
now I know this seems tedious but if its formatted for windows will it read on OSX? I'm utterly confused and have far to many questions. May I get some help please?
That will be a huge step up from my computer so if you have seen any of my previous posts then thank you for helping me with the RAM ideas but I'll upgrade later when I need to, for now I just need to see how much difference in speed there is.
My question is really about my hard drive. I run ubuntu 10.04, its a long story. so i have everything stored on an external HD. Only because i cannot store anything on my comp. I have been told i will need to install a compatibility layer for ext2 and ext3 drives.
Here is the Q: how can i tell if my hard drive is an EXT2 or EXT3. Can OSX mountain lion read such drives? Also my father has an old PC with windows XP service pack 2 on it and it will read the hard drive just fine, does that mean the drive is formatted for windows? i even get a system volume information file and a trash 1000 file on the drive whenever i go back to my comp.
now I know this seems tedious but if its formatted for windows will it read on OSX? I'm utterly confused and have far to many questions. May I get some help please?