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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1699430"><p>Well, you can take a couple of paths for that, too. You could get Paragon NTFS for Mac and be able to read/write to the Windows formatted drive, or you could format the drive for FAT32 and both Windows/OSX can read and write to that. Or you can format it for NTFS, which OS X can read but not write, and use the drive just to hold the files for you to copy from the external to the new internal or future Mac. Any/all of those options would work and only the Paragon NTFS solution costs any more. According to <a href="http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/iMac/Intel_Core_2_Duo_PC2-6400" target="_blank">OWC</a> that machine can handle 6GB of memory, so that could help it get going again. But to be perfectly honest, I think it's time to start saving pennies for a new(er) system. That's a 2008 machine, getting on to 8 years old now, and it's going to be more expensive to upgrade than maybe it's worth. If it's running Windows fine, and if you can rescue your files from the OS X partition, maybe you just live with it, save pennies and wait for it to die (Making backups against that day, of course).</p><p></p><p>EDIT: The OWC link has slower memory than you need, so the prices may not be right. You'd have to contact OWC or Crucial to see if they can tell you the exact memory that fits in your machine. (Apple had two different busses in that model, just to add to the complexity.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1699430"] Well, you can take a couple of paths for that, too. You could get Paragon NTFS for Mac and be able to read/write to the Windows formatted drive, or you could format the drive for FAT32 and both Windows/OSX can read and write to that. Or you can format it for NTFS, which OS X can read but not write, and use the drive just to hold the files for you to copy from the external to the new internal or future Mac. Any/all of those options would work and only the Paragon NTFS solution costs any more. According to [URL="http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/iMac/Intel_Core_2_Duo_PC2-6400"]OWC[/URL] that machine can handle 6GB of memory, so that could help it get going again. But to be perfectly honest, I think it's time to start saving pennies for a new(er) system. That's a 2008 machine, getting on to 8 years old now, and it's going to be more expensive to upgrade than maybe it's worth. If it's running Windows fine, and if you can rescue your files from the OS X partition, maybe you just live with it, save pennies and wait for it to die (Making backups against that day, of course). EDIT: The OWC link has slower memory than you need, so the prices may not be right. You'd have to contact OWC or Crucial to see if they can tell you the exact memory that fits in your machine. (Apple had two different busses in that model, just to add to the complexity.) [/QUOTE]
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