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Switching Music Files from Mac to PC
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 649626" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>You can move your music files several different ways:</p><p></p><p>1. Network your new PC with your Mac. Make sure the external HDD is attached to the Mac. Transfer the files. With networking the file format is transparent.</p><p></p><p>Note - your new PC will be formatted to NTFS so you can't write to it directly. I do not recommend using NTFS R\W software for the Mac as it is not reliable. </p><p></p><p>2. Purchase another external HDD and format it to FAT-32. Copy your music files directly to the FAT-32 drive and later transfer them to your new PC. This may be the easiest solution and nowadays large external drives are inexpensive.</p><p></p><p>As for reformatting you old external drive, that's easy. Once all your files are transferred, use Disk Manager from XP or Vista to remove the HFS+ partition, create a new Windows partition, and format the drive. As for the drive being safe, I'm not sure I understand what you mean, but once the drive is reformatted all the old data on it will be gone (not really) and the space will be overwritten with new data.</p><p></p><p>Regards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 649626, member: 46727"] You can move your music files several different ways: 1. Network your new PC with your Mac. Make sure the external HDD is attached to the Mac. Transfer the files. With networking the file format is transparent. Note - your new PC will be formatted to NTFS so you can't write to it directly. I do not recommend using NTFS R\W software for the Mac as it is not reliable. 2. Purchase another external HDD and format it to FAT-32. Copy your music files directly to the FAT-32 drive and later transfer them to your new PC. This may be the easiest solution and nowadays large external drives are inexpensive. As for reformatting you old external drive, that's easy. Once all your files are transferred, use Disk Manager from XP or Vista to remove the HFS+ partition, create a new Windows partition, and format the drive. As for the drive being safe, I'm not sure I understand what you mean, but once the drive is reformatted all the old data on it will be gone (not really) and the space will be overwritten with new data. Regards. [/QUOTE]
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