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Can you upload pictures from a PC external hard drive to an IMac?
We have a laptop that had a virus, and cleaning out the hard drive didn't help. We backed up everything on to an external hard drive. If we get an IMac now, will we be able to upload the pictures we saved to the Mac? Thank you
Yes, Mercuri, thank you. I mean transfer!!!
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
"Upload" isn't the correct word here. I think you mean "transfer."
To answer your question, it depends on how the external drive is formatted. I think Macs can read NTFS, but they just can't write to it. FAT32 is ideal for transferring files between Macs and PCs though.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You should have no problems doing that.
If its Fat32 formatted, the Mac can fully use it. If its NTFS, the Mac can read everything fine off of the drive (which includes being able to copy off). Once you have everything off of it and its NTFS, if you want to keep using it as a drive for the mac, you'd need to run Disk Utility on the Mac and "Erase" the drive selecting to format it as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" but then Windows will no longer be able to use it at all. Formatting it as MS-DOS Fat32 will allow Windows and Mac OS X to both fully use the drive, but its an old format and will have problems if you get large single files like around 4gb or higher.