iMac advice required

xstrathyx

Guys and gals,

My boss has an extensive itunes library and until about 3 weeks ago had it on a windows based pc. I backed it all up onto a portable HDD. Anyway, he has now gone and bought an all singing all dancing iMac.

Dilemma is, when i plug in the portable HDD to the new iMac, the iMac does not recognise it. It also asks if i wish to format the HDD, which i don't as i aill lose his library.

Is there anything i can do to convert the files so they are iMac compliant?

Any advice would be much appreciated. i am not upto speed with Macs to be honest

Thanks in advance

bails87

Is it something to do with NTFS/FAT-32? I used something called SwissKnife to create a NTFS partition on a FAT32 external HD for storing large files on.

You could create a partition in whichever format the rest of the disk isn't in and then copy the music over to that.

xstrathyx

Bails

so if i plug the usb hard drive in, install swiss knife, take a segment of the portable HDD and partition it in a format readable by iMacs and copy the data across this should work>

Cheers

whyamihere

xSTRATHYx wrote:

Bails

so if i plug the usb hard drive in, install swiss knife, take a segment of the portable HDD and partition it in a format readable by iMacs and copy the data across this should work>

Cheers

Should do, yes.

The Northern Monkey

If you have a windows pc just transfer the files from the flash drive to it, reformat the flash drive to Fat-32 and transfer the data back to the flash drive.

Then drag and drop to your mac.

Thewaylander

Sell the Mac and get a tidy new Pc done

xstrathyx

yeah thats what i am doing, problem is the bellend has 29gb of itunes library.

just going to transfer to my pc, format the hdd and change ti to fat32 and then reload his pash back on it

cheers guys

bigbenj_08 wrote:

If you have a windows pc just transfer the files from the flash drive to it, reformat the flash drive to Fat-32 and transfer the data back to the flash drive.

Then drag and drop to your mac.

bails87

How big is the hard drive? Could you split it in half and make one half FAT32 and one half NTFS?

xstrathyx

the portable one is 250gb, thats not the problem. the minute i open swiss knife and try to partition part of the HDD, it throws up an error and wants to shut the application down. i am guessing this might be the pc issus as the one i am using is prehistoric

might try it at home on my laptop, cos i could then acquire some of his library for "personal" consumption

none of the above is helped by the fact i have a blinding headache after having a couple of jars lastnight.

I am officially a pussy when it comes to drinking also. i had 4 pints and 2 bottles of stella and i am dying today. I am ashamed.

Going to stand in the corner now!

bails87 wrote:

How big is the hard drive? Could you split it in half and make one half FAT32 and one half NTFS?

GHill

Are the machines networked? If so, could do a file transfer.

supersonic

I thought imac was hair remover cream.

xstrathyx

cheers guys, i managed to format the HDD and partition half of it NTFS and the other half FAT32. I can now see the itunes library on the mac.

Happy days and thanks for the heads up!