RE: Aye-yi-yi - AbeCollins - Computer Audio Asylum

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RE: Aye-yi-yi

In Reply to: RE: Aye-yi-yi posted by SamA on June 6, 2012 at 09:33:41:

If you plan to dump the PC completely and go Mac all the way, ideally you will want your external drives formatted as "Mac OS Extended". This is easy to do with the Mac's Disk Utility program.

However, you will need a place to temporarily move your existing files because when you repartition / reformat your external drives, you will lose all of your data.

Depending on how much data you have on the external drives, you might be able to copy your files and folders over to the INTERNAL drive on your new Mac. Once they are copied to the Mac, now go ahead and reformat / repartition the external drives using the Mac's Disk Utility program. Once that is done, you can copy or move your files from the Mac back over to your external drives.

Using Disk Utility is fairly simple so if you need help, someone here can jump in when you're ready.

Also note that the latest Mac OS Mountain Lion operating system will be out later this summer. There's also a decent chance that some of the Macs may also be updated. If you're not in a hurry, it might be worth waiting until "Mountain Lion" is out and pre-installed on the Macs before you buy. Just a thought.

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Topic - If I switch from PC to Mac, will my external drives work? - SamA 05:30:54 06/05/12 (18)

NTFS for Mac - tlea 17:22:26 06/06/12 (0)

Aye-yi-yi - SamA 06:51:03 06/06/12 (10)

RE: Aye-yi-yi - Presto 15:37:33 06/06/12 (0)

RE: Aye-yi-yi - AbeCollins 08:04:43 06/06/12 (8)

RE: Aye-yi-yi - SamA 09:33:41 06/06/12 (7)

not so hard - bwb 21:36:07 06/06/12 (5)

RE: not so hard - AbeCollins 22:41:41 06/06/12 (4)

oh - bwb 06:48:47 06/07/12 (3)

RE: oh - AbeCollins 08:32:38 06/07/12 (2)

RE: oh - SamA 09:05:50 06/07/12 (1)

Sorry. - AbeCollins 12:20:59 06/07/12 (0)

RE: Aye-yi-yi - AbeCollins 09:59:32 06/06/12 (0)

RE: If I switch from PC to Mac, will my external drives work? - Tweekeng 07:02:54 06/05/12 (5)

no - bwb 22:14:53 06/05/12 (0)

Thanks - SamA 11:33:13 06/05/12 (3)

RE: Thanks - AbeCollins 15:16:56 06/05/12 (2)

no - bwb 22:15:53 06/05/12 (1)

RE: no - AbeCollins 01:15:41 06/06/12 (0)

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RE: Aye-yi-yi - AbeCollins 09:59:32 06/06/12 (0)

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