jhulud Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 About three years ago...my desktop PC crapped out on us. Something going on with the motherboard being fried. So we took out the hard drive out of it...which contains my entire music collection and files as well as all photos I've taken over the years that are not on my iPhone. Hard drive looks like this: My question is this. I'm pondering getting myself an Apple MacBook Air with max storage as I'd be using for music storage and eventual transfers to iPod and interwebz stuffs...maybe even resurrect the ol' record collecting blog. How easy or difficult would be to transfer all the data on that hard drive to the MacBook? Or maybe even an external drive or a flash drive? I honestly can't tell how much of the music and photo data I have on that hard disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superpeephole Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 (edited) you can buy an enclosure for that hard drive that way it becomes an external hdd. not 100% sure if it will work on Mac, but i dont see why not! I use this https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Lay-Flat-Docking-EC-DFLT/dp/B00LS5NFQ2/ref=sr_1_5?gclid=Cj0KCQiA5aWOBhDMARIsAIXLlkfVRIayfS2xubTb9KKYCCavIKqXmmvBz3tA8cBJHpPKqBVmS8QUWhAaAjB6EALw_wcB&hvadid=174232456004&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9031211&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=8887162520383547255&hvtargid=kwd-1977343121&hydadcr=24634_9648911&keywords=hard+drive+enclosure&qid=1640640169&sr=8-5 Edited December 27, 2021 by superpeephole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shitty Rambo Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 What @superpeepholesaid, get an enclosure (preferably one with a power input) or a docking bay (link below) from Amazon, then send that shit back for a refund 😂. You should be able to access your C/D drive as if it were an external drive. Don't see why it wouldn't work on a Mac, you're just dragging/dropping universal media files. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083W6YBPW/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_18F4CW0PH9D7ZMFT430M?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OU818 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 be careful using external HDD going from PC to Mac, they use different file formats and will NOT always work without being reformatted. Although I'm sure there's some workaround by now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erthan Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 On 12/28/2021 at 12:21 AM, OU818 said: be careful using external HDD going from PC to Mac, they use different file formats and will NOT always work without being reformatted. Although I'm sure there's some workaround by now It's been a few years since I've had to do this and I know Apple likes to screw with random features in its OSes sometimes but I believe Windows formatted drives (NTFS) can be read no problem on MacOS, it's just writing to it that requires a workaround. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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