Transfering External Hard Drive from PC to Mac?

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Transfering External Hard Drive from PC to Mac?

When formatting the hard drive in xp, i am only prompted for ntfs. How does this effect installing a mac os later on?

2007-11-07 10:45:24 · 2 answers · asked by Austin D 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops

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If you're planning on reformatting the drive before you install Mac OS, then there's no issue. Just use the Mac's Disk Utility program and reformat it as Mac OS (Journaled).

2007-11-09 17:01:48 · answer #1 · answered by Jeff F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋

There's no way to install OSX on a hard drive formatted on a PC. You could format it on the Mac and then use Bootcamp to put a FAT32 partition on it that both Windows and OSX can see, but the actually OSX would still have to be on the OSX partition.

2007-11-07 12:09:17 · answer #2 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋