I have an old Mac powerbook - I keep all of my music, pictures, and time machine saves on a 500 GB WD Passport. Now, I have a PC with Windows 8 (functions with the same apps as Windows 7) and I bought a new 1 TB WD Passport that I want to transfer all of my old files to (Mac music, pictures, files). I have an old Mac powerbook - I keep all of my music, pictures, and time machine saves on a 500 GB WD Passport. Now, I have a PC with Windows 8 (functions with the same apps as Windows 7) and I bought a new 1 TB WD Passport that I want to transfer all of my old files to (Mac music, pictures, files). Both my Mac and my WD Passport configured for a Mac are going to stop working soon (mac old, WD was dropped) so I want to do this asap. I have tried plugging the new PC-configured WD Passport into my Mac and dragging and dropping from Mac-WD to PC-WD, but it won't allow it. Obviously it won't work to plug the Mac-WD into my PC unless I re-configure it (and then I will lose all of my data).
I don't have enough room to temporarily put all of the files onto the Mac desktop and move it that way. Plus, since my Mac is almost 5 years old, it is too slow to transfer files anyways. Additionally, I have a 16GB flash drive that I was going to try and move files from my Mac to my PC (And then PC-WD) but it is a slow process since folders with similar names (i.e., the same band, different albums) won't be added to it. Any suggestions?? Thanks, Kendall.
YouTube Video Covering the Format of WD My Passport for Mac This video from Acquevara shows the formatting of an external hard drive on a Mac using Mac OS Sierra. I copy it here so that if you would like to watch the video along side using my notes above you have a quick and easy link to get to it.
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If you dropped a drive, either it broke or not. If not, then not. A 'PC-format' is likely NTFS. The OS X default driver is read-only for NTFS, so buy and install 'Paragon NTFS For Mac' to copy files to NTFS. A Mac format is 'un-everything' in Windows. Will not even mount. To see files and copy files FROM a Mac drive, use 'HFSExplorer', free.
It works similar to data recovery-does not mount the Mac formatted drive, but can find a list of files on the Mac drive. To mount the Mac drive in Windows so that it appears in 'Computer' window and works just like a Windows formatted drive, buy and install 'Paragon HFS+ For Windows'. Tell us some more. Upload in Progress. Upload failed. Please upload a file larger than 100x100 pixels. We are experiencing some problems, please try again.
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