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Newbie ?: Do I reformat my FAT32 External HD to Mac OS Extended (Journalized)
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<blockquote data-quote="LILBonsaii" data-source="post: 1179958" data-attributes="member: 190961"><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="color: Purple">Hi All! A few days ago, I decided to take the plunge into the Mac world and ditched my dying PC for my very first Mac!!! Weeeeeee! So now for my question:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="color: Purple"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="color: Purple">I have a WD external HD that was formatted for my PC in FAT32. I did a a good bit of reading before I got my iMac and I know that a lot of places suggested that I copy ALL of the info from my external HD to my iMac, reformat the external HD to max os extended and then copy all of my info back onto my newly formatted HD. In your opinions, is this a good move OR do I just keep my WD external HD in the FAT32 format? My exernal HD consists of pictures, music, my entire iTunes library and documents/spreadsheets. I did get Office for Mac so I can still use all of my docs from my PC. Any help or advice would be great.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="color: Purple"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="color: Purple">Thank Q in advance!!!</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LILBonsaii, post: 1179958, member: 190961"] [FONT="Comic Sans MS"][COLOR="Purple"]Hi All! A few days ago, I decided to take the plunge into the Mac world and ditched my dying PC for my very first Mac!!! Weeeeeee! So now for my question: I have a WD external HD that was formatted for my PC in FAT32. I did a a good bit of reading before I got my iMac and I know that a lot of places suggested that I copy ALL of the info from my external HD to my iMac, reformat the external HD to max os extended and then copy all of my info back onto my newly formatted HD. In your opinions, is this a good move OR do I just keep my WD external HD in the FAT32 format? My exernal HD consists of pictures, music, my entire iTunes library and documents/spreadsheets. I did get Office for Mac so I can still use all of my docs from my PC. Any help or advice would be great. Thank Q in advance!!![/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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