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Welcome,

I'm about ready to make the switch from PC to MAC as my 8 year old Gateway is starting to wind down. My question is that I have a WD 1TB MyBook with a ton of files and pictures on it and wanted to know if i could just plug it into the MAC and still be able to use the files since i noticed that WD sells both a PC and MAC verions of MyBook.

Thanks!

James
 
I guess this is just an external harddrive? It should work with both - mac and pc. Only problem might be that it could be formatted in NTFS, but that is rather unusual for external drives.
Not sure why they sell two versions then, maybe one is with firewire, but all newer macs have usb 2.0 as far as I know.
 
storm1nj said:
Welcome,

I'm about ready to make the switch from PC to MAC as my 8 year old Gateway is starting to wind down. My question is that I have a WD 1TB MyBook with a ton of files and pictures on it and wanted to know if i could just plug it into the MAC and still be able to use the files since i noticed that WD sells both a PC and MAC verions of MyBook.

Thanks!

James
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As Corny said, the distinction is just the file system the drive is formatted in. There are 3 common drive file systems:

NTFS - Used by modern Windows. A Mac can read but not write out-of-the-box.
HFS+ - Used by Mac. Windows can't read or write out-of-the-box.
FAT32 - The older system used by Windows. Mac and Windows can read and write, but this system has file size and drive size limitations.

Presumably, the drive is currently formatted in NTFS. You have few choices. Once you get your Mac, you could:

• Copy all the data off the drive, then reformat in HFS+ and copy it back on.

• Install NTFS-3G for Mac. This is a free utility that allows a Mac to read and write to NTFS drives. It requires a few command-line entries to install, but it's fairly straightforward.

• Buy and install Paragon NTFS. It does the same kind of thing as the point above, but in a more streamlined way. It costs 40 bucks, but it's really easy to install and works really well. I use Paragon on all my machines and, once installed, you never even think about file systems ever again. (They also have a similar product for Windows that provides HFS+ support - very handy if you plan on installing Windows on your new Mac).
 
Does anyone know how I can stream real player videos through my iPad? Help please
 
No real player videos are not iPad compatible.
 
The AirVideo app will stream any video format to your iPad in real time from a computer, over wifi or 3G. It also converts video of any format to iPad/iPhone compatible files if you want to copy them onto the iPad.
 
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