500 gb Seagate ext. HD

[Nuckin]

Ok so I got my ext. HD in the mail today!

Now I am going to put my 30 gb of music on it and back up some other files when I get home..

My girlfriend has a Mac that I would like to get pictures off and throw on this HD as well.

Am I going to run into any issues going from PC to Mac back to PC? Pc runs vista if thats an issue.

[gator]

If it's formatted FAT, no problem. Hook it up to the Mac and copy/export over the pictures that you need.

If it's formatted NTFS:
Mac has no NTFS write functionality (it should be able to read the drive though). You'll need to either

1) Mount it on the Mac over the network using SMB (Samba). The process is roughly something like this, although instead of right clicking on "My Documents" you'd want to right click on whatever the external drive is.

http://lifehacker.com/software/mac-os-x ... 247148.php

2) Maybe use a USB flash drive if you have one to move pics over to your computer. Depending on how many pics, could take a couple trips.

[Nuckin]

thanks Gator!

[MrBlah]

I would leave your 30GB of music on your internal HDD and use that 500GB as primarily a backup. It always sucks loosing all your music.

if you run into trouble formating it and only are able to format NTFS just burn your pictures to a dvd and them open em up on your PC and transfer them to your ext HD.

you can put 1500+ JPEG (3MB) pictures on a dvd and then you would have a hard copy of them as well.

If you really wanna go even farther, upload em all to photobucket and then you have a 3rd backup of your pictures.

[Nuckin]

[quote="MrBlah";p="100592"]I would leave your 30GB of music on your internal HDD and use that 500GB as primarily a backup. It always sucks loosing all your music.

if you run into trouble formating it and only are able to format NTFS just burn your pictures to a dvd and them open em up on your PC and transfer them to your ext HD.

you can put 1500+ JPEG (3MB) pictures on a dvd and then you would have a hard copy of them as well.

If you really wanna go even farther, upload em all to photobucket and then you have a 3rd backup of your pictures.[/quote]

good ideas! Definitly will do the DVD to have a hard copy. Yeah I dont want to lose my 30 gb of music... would be like 3 grand from itunes if I had to re-buy..

Thanks Blah!

[gator]

You haven't bought 30GB of music from iTunes have you? That's just crazy.

[Stevo]

Doesn't iTunes let you download the songs you bought again?

[MrBlah]

[quote="Stevo";p="100609"]
Doesn't iTunes let you download the songs you bought again?
[/quote]

no.....

[Nuckin]

[quote="gator";p="100600"]You haven't bought 30GB of music from iTunes have you? That's just crazy.[/quote]

No put a bunch of CD's from friends collections on my PC...

[MasterChef]

[quote="MrBlah";p="100636"][quote="Stevo";p="100609"]
Doesn't iTunes let you download the songs you bought again?
[/quote]

no.....[/quote]

Yeah I'm in the process of burning my itunes music to cd and then copying it back to mp3. Luckily I don't have too much to do. I like Amazon's mp3 store. you pay for the songs and get an actual mp3 file.

[mr_s]

[quote="=USV=Nuckin";p="100595"]
[quote="MrBlah";p="100592"]I would leave your 30GB of music on your internal HDD and use that 500GB as primarily a backup. It always sucks loosing all your music.

if you run into trouble formating it and only are able to format NTFS just burn your pictures to a dvd and them open em up on your PC and transfer them to your ext HD.

you can put 1500+ JPEG (3MB) pictures on a dvd and then you would have a hard copy of them as well.

If you really wanna go even farther, upload em all to photobucket and then you have a 3rd backup of your pictures.[/quote]

good ideas! Definitly will do the DVD to have a hard copy. Yeah I dont want to lose my 30 gb of music... would be like 3 grand from itunes if I had to re-buy..

Thanks Blah!
[/quote]



ROFLLLLL!!!

heard of torrents before?

oh wait its a mac, sorry, no can do.





BTW, apple=devil

my ipod mini broke for no apparent reason the other day.


i want my money back Steve

[Nuckin]

[quote="mr_s";p="101038"][quote="=USV=Nuckin";p="100595"]
[quote="MrBlah";p="100592"]I would leave your 30GB of music on your internal HDD and use that 500GB as primarily a backup. It always sucks loosing all your music.

if you run into trouble formating it and only are able to format NTFS just burn your pictures to a dvd and them open em up on your PC and transfer them to your ext HD.

you can put 1500+ JPEG (3MB) pictures on a dvd and then you would have a hard copy of them as well.

If you really wanna go even farther, upload em all to photobucket and then you have a 3rd backup of your pictures.[/quote]

good ideas! Definitly will do the DVD to have a hard copy. Yeah I dont want to lose my 30 gb of music... would be like 3 grand from itunes if I had to re-buy..

Thanks Blah!
[/quote]



ROFLLLLL!!!

heard of torrents before?

oh wait its a mac, sorry, no can do.





BTW, apple=devil

my ipod mini broke for no apparent reason the other day.


i want my money back Steve[/quote]

Here in the states torrents can get ya in quite some trouble.. I share a T1 and they catch people all the time..

[gator]

[quote="mr_s";p="101038"]
ROFLLLLL!!!

heard of torrents before?

oh wait its a mac, sorry, no can do.



[/quote]

Sigh.

http://www.transmissionbt.com/

Or any other multitude of BT clients.

Not to mention, stealing content is bad...

[MasterChef]

[quote="=USV=Nuckin";p="101051"][quote="mr_s";p="101038"][quote="=USV=Nuckin";p="100595"]
[quote="MrBlah";p="100592"]I would leave your 30GB of music on your internal HDD and use that 500GB as primarily a backup. It always sucks loosing all your music.

if you run into trouble formating it and only are able to format NTFS just burn your pictures to a dvd and them open em up on your PC and transfer them to your ext HD.

you can put 1500+ JPEG (3MB) pictures on a dvd and then you would have a hard copy of them as well.

If you really wanna go even farther, upload em all to photobucket and then you have a 3rd backup of your pictures.[/quote]

good ideas! Definitly will do the DVD to have a hard copy. Yeah I dont want to lose my 30 gb of music... would be like 3 grand from itunes if I had to re-buy..

Thanks Blah!
[/quote]



ROFLLLLL!!!

heard of torrents before?

oh wait its a mac, sorry, no can do.





BTW, apple=devil

my ipod mini broke for no apparent reason the other day.


i want my money back Steve[/quote]

Here in the states torrents can get ya in quite some trouble.. I share a T1 and they catch people all the time..[/quote]

Yeah Comcast detected me downloading some stuff using a torrent so I stopped using them.

I like my Ipod but I hate Itunes. So I'm converting the stuff I bought on itunes to break free from it.