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Running Windows on your Mac
Transferring old Windows files to my new MacBook Pro?
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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1869458" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>Here is a tutorial from Apple on how to move your data from a Windows PC to your new Mac:</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204087[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Alternately, you can move all of your Windows files to an external hard drive, and then attach that hard drive to your Mac and download them all. The trick is to be sure that your external hard drive is formated so that your Windows PC can write to it and your Mac can read from it.</p><p></p><p>Most hard drives formatted for Windows are in NTFS format. Macs will mount an NTFS drive as “read-only” which should do for your purposes. Another acceptable format would be ExFAT (what Apple's Disk Utility calles "ms-dos"). Both Macs and Windows can both read and write to a drive formatted as ExFAT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1869458, member: 190607"] Here is a tutorial from Apple on how to move your data from a Windows PC to your new Mac: [URL unfurl="true"]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204087[/URL] Alternately, you can move all of your Windows files to an external hard drive, and then attach that hard drive to your Mac and download them all. The trick is to be sure that your external hard drive is formated so that your Windows PC can write to it and your Mac can read from it. Most hard drives formatted for Windows are in NTFS format. Macs will mount an NTFS drive as “read-only” which should do for your purposes. Another acceptable format would be ExFAT (what Apple's Disk Utility calles "ms-dos"). Both Macs and Windows can both read and write to a drive formatted as ExFAT. [/QUOTE]
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