Hi there,
Im currently making the change from PC to Mac. I have two external storage units (300GB & 500GB) and additionally my old HDD (200GB) from the PC (unformatted but everything of importance has been backed up on my storage units.
All are formatted to NTFS.
As I am new to Macs I thought I would scrawl the threads here to bone up on Mac knowledge. I came across a thread that said Macs can only read NTFS and cant write to it. They need to operate on storages formatted to Fat32.
This is obviously a problem as I will need to send data between the storage and the Mac HDD.
I am currently using my old PC and awaiting my arrival of my Mini Mac (1.83Ghz Intel - Leopard OSX).
What would you reccomend the best course of action? There is about a total of 250 GB spare that I can play with in the storage units, so I'm thinking move everything off one, formatting it to Fat32 and then moving everything back and doing the same on the other one. Just hope I have enough space! (Although can always use 80gig ipod to help).
Please advise oh Mac masters.
Oh and also, I lose some storage space when I use Fat32 right? Isn't there also a 30GB single file limit? Or is that just for Fat32 within a PC system?
Thanks
