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Accessing data from Windows XP on external hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1523334"><p>By "backed up" do you mean you used some application in WIndows to back them up, or did you just copy them to the drive? If you used some software to back up the files, you'll need to somehow get that software to extract them. If, however, all you did was copy, then all you have to do is connect the drive, then when it wants to format it for OSX say no (I don't have any NTFS drives, so I can't tell you exactly what the command for "no" is, but it should be there somewhere) and the drive will mount as read-only. You can then copy the files from the drive to your internal drive, or to a Mac-formatted external drive and use them as you want. If you want to keep the external drive formatted for Windows (NTFS) then you need a third party product to get OSX to read AND write to NTFS. Most of us here recommend <a href="http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/" target="_blank">Paragon NTFS</a> for that purpose.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1523334"] By "backed up" do you mean you used some application in WIndows to back them up, or did you just copy them to the drive? If you used some software to back up the files, you'll need to somehow get that software to extract them. If, however, all you did was copy, then all you have to do is connect the drive, then when it wants to format it for OSX say no (I don't have any NTFS drives, so I can't tell you exactly what the command for "no" is, but it should be there somewhere) and the drive will mount as read-only. You can then copy the files from the drive to your internal drive, or to a Mac-formatted external drive and use them as you want. If you want to keep the external drive formatted for Windows (NTFS) then you need a third party product to get OSX to read AND write to NTFS. Most of us here recommend [URL="http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/"]Paragon NTFS[/URL] for that purpose. [/QUOTE]
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