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Hey all
I am wondering if I could get some help in the most basic of questions. I hope to be switching from a PC to Mac.
1. Right now I have an external drive that has most of what I value on it. (Photos and such). I do know that it will work with a Mac, but my understanding is I will have to reformat it. I have seen some posts on here about how to do that, but I think my question is so novice that I can't seem to get an answer on it lol. In doing so will I loose the stuff that is on my Harddrive. I have an old PC that did not have the required harddrive space to hold most of my Photos and Videos. I use the external drive as the solution to that. However that means that for much of my media the only place it is located is on the external drive.
So I am a little confused if I reformat it do I lose it? If so remembering my PC can't hold all that is on the hard drive...any suggestions of how to get it onto the Mac.
2. I have spoken to a few people at Best Buy about this(closest apple store is 2 hrs way) and I get conflicting reports. I am fairly particular about my itunes and have spent a lot of time organizing it just the way I like. Will I have to do all this reorganization all over again or is there a way to make my library in the new Mac appear just as it did on the PC with little effort? (if so how?)
Again thanks for the help, I realize to those in the know these are probably basic questions.
Cheers
I am wondering if I could get some help in the most basic of questions. I hope to be switching from a PC to Mac.
1. Right now I have an external drive that has most of what I value on it. (Photos and such). I do know that it will work with a Mac, but my understanding is I will have to reformat it. I have seen some posts on here about how to do that, but I think my question is so novice that I can't seem to get an answer on it lol. In doing so will I loose the stuff that is on my Harddrive. I have an old PC that did not have the required harddrive space to hold most of my Photos and Videos. I use the external drive as the solution to that. However that means that for much of my media the only place it is located is on the external drive.
So I am a little confused if I reformat it do I lose it? If so remembering my PC can't hold all that is on the hard drive...any suggestions of how to get it onto the Mac.
2. I have spoken to a few people at Best Buy about this(closest apple store is 2 hrs way) and I get conflicting reports. I am fairly particular about my itunes and have spent a lot of time organizing it just the way I like. Will I have to do all this reorganization all over again or is there a way to make my library in the new Mac appear just as it did on the PC with little effort? (if so how?)
Again thanks for the help, I realize to those in the know these are probably basic questions.
Cheers