tyrion Posted February 23, 2009 Report Share Posted February 23, 2009 I have a good client/friend that has cancer. He is having major surgery in about 2 weeks. I've been telling him to get a drive for me to transfer a bunch of music for him to use on his ipod and at home. I have an external in my office which I reformatted by accident. I have a 1 tb drive at home that is Mac OS formatted. I would like to be able to transfer about 400 gb of music from this drive to his new 1 tb Seagate Freeagent (not Mac OS). He uses a pc. Is there anyway for me to do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_maher Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Mike, I'm sure there's a way. The simplest path to me would seem to be to reformat the office drive (presumably currently not in use) as a FAT32 volume that could easily be seen by the MAC. You could then transfer the files to that external drive (if it's big enough) and simply give the drive to your friend or use it to transfer files to his drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrion Posted February 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 His new drive is a 1 TB Freeagent (windows version). If I reformat the office drive to FAT32 and then transfer the music from my Mac drive to it, I will then be able to connect the FAT32 drive to a windows machine and transfer to his 1 TB drive? I wanted to make sure I understood. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 NTFS-3G for Mac OS X NTFS driver for mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrion Posted February 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Thanks Dan. Question, does this get installed on my macs drive or the mac external drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Good luck to your friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrion Posted February 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Good luck to your friend. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt Peanuts Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Thanks Dan. Question, does this get installed on my macs drive or the mac external drive? It gets installed on your Mac. It basically allows you to write on NTFS partitions/drives directly from OS X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrion Posted February 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 It gets installed on your Mac. It basically allows you to write on NTFS partitions/drives directly from OS X. When I tried to do that I get this message: You cannot install NTFS-3G 2009.2.1 Update 1 [stable build] on this volume. MacFUSE is not installed. Please download and install it from macfuse - Google Code before attempting to install NTFS-3G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt Peanuts Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 When I tried to do that I get this message: You cannot install NTFS-3G 2009.2.1 Update 1 [stable build] on this volume. MacFUSE is not installed. Please download and install it from macfuse - Google Code before attempting to install NTFS-3G. Oh right, MacFUSE. Install that first and NTFS driver should install just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrion Posted February 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Thanks guys, it's working great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzziguy Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Good luck to your friend Mike. I hope everything works out well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augsburger Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Good luck to your friend Mike, I hope the surgery is successful. And a speedy recovery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphsci Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Good luck to your friend and Kudos to his friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrion Posted February 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Thanks everyone. He's having about 2/3 of his liver removed and a piece of his colon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Absorbine_Sr Posted February 25, 2009 Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 Best of luck to your friend and a tip of the hat to you for trying to make things better for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrion Posted February 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 He was in the office yesterday. You would never know there was anything wrong from looking at him. He is facing about a 6 to 8 hours surgery. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted February 25, 2009 Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 Damn, that is intense! Sorry your buddy is going through this, Mike, but you are a good friend as always. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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