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#1 2009-05-17 1:50 pm
- OneGun
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hard drive question
Hi everyone I am new here, I bought my first Mac this weekend, it will be the first time I have gotten to use one in a while. It is a 2000 model G4 power mac, with 466 mhz processor. I got it for only 75 dollars, as I am poor this is the newest mac I could afford. Enough
my question is this, I have an emachine that has it's second bad motherboard in less than five years, it runs XP, could I slave the hard drive, stick it in the mac and get my pictures and stuff off of it? if there is anyway that this is possible please let me know
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#2 2009-05-17 3:20 pm
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Re: hard drive question
It depends. If the Windows drive is formatted FAT then no problems, any version of OS X will read the drive as long as it isn't borked. If the Windows drive is formatted NTFS I am pretty sure you will need 10.3 or newer to read the drive without third party software.
If you are running 10.4 and want/need read-write NTFS support there is an open source read-write NTFS driver set-up for OS X which works OK. Performance is not spectacular but it does work.
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#3 2009-05-17 8:17 pm
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Re: hard drive question
Or, have a friend with a PC slave the drive & burn the stuff to CD/DVD or transfer to USB drive for you. Not exactly what you asked, just another option in case test's suggestion doesn't work. Good luck!
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#4 2009-05-19 1:03 am
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Re: hard drive question
Mr. Happypants wrote:
Or, have a friend with a PC slave the drive & burn the stuff to CD/DVD or transfer to USB drive for you. Not exactly what you asked, just another option in case test's suggestion doesn't work. Good luck!
The friend could also reformat the drive to FAT as another option. Even faster, easier for him.
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#5 2009-09-17 11:22 am
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Re: hard drive question
thanks for the help, installing Panther now, we'll see how it goes
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