On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:49 AM, David J Brooks<[email protected]> wrote: > I asked this a while back and cannot find the email answers. > > http://www.myfirstmac.com/index.php/mac/articles/1-external-hard-drive-for-your-mac-and-pc > > According to the above link, i can take my Maxtor external HD that was > not formatted via the ibook and plug it into the Mac and it will see > and read the files, correct.??
Mac OS X will read Windows NTFS volumes and read/write FAT16 and FAT32 volumes. So your iBook will certainly read anything on that volume. > Everything on this Maxtor has only been backed up once, i now have an > other external HD that i want to transfer over the files, about 120 > gig. Its been dual formatted already. > > This should be ok i an supposing. > > Only problem is the Maxtor is usb 1.1 and this will be slow as hell to > copy to i am guessing Yes, it's going to be very slow to read ... USB 1.1 is about 30x slower than USB 2. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
