oldskool
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I apologize in advance if there are any posts on this but I have searched for a while now, and haven't seen this addressed directly. A friend I work with just received a Mac Book Pro and has an external drive with Windows XP (not sure which version, I have to ask him more details). He wants to be able to copy over files and since I don't know a whole lot about Apple products, could someone tell me if it is even possible to do this for free ?
Concerning his exact specs, I don't know what the external drive is, but will ask more tonight at work. Without more specifics, I know this is a bit ambiguous, but I just wanted to see how hard of an undertaking this could turn out to be, and if there were any basic solutions, such as a built-in capbability for Macs to read Windows partitions, for example.
I wanted to offer him some ideas for free if possible. I Googled and found some paid solutions, such as Paragon NTFS to Mac, but I think what he basically wants could be done without necessarily resorting to that.
I don't believe he is super computer savvy, so it would obviously work to his benefit if he could just have a fairly simple solution. Thanks again, everyone.
~oldskool
Concerning his exact specs, I don't know what the external drive is, but will ask more tonight at work. Without more specifics, I know this is a bit ambiguous, but I just wanted to see how hard of an undertaking this could turn out to be, and if there were any basic solutions, such as a built-in capbability for Macs to read Windows partitions, for example.
I wanted to offer him some ideas for free if possible. I Googled and found some paid solutions, such as Paragon NTFS to Mac, but I think what he basically wants could be done without necessarily resorting to that.
I don't believe he is super computer savvy, so it would obviously work to his benefit if he could just have a fairly simple solution. Thanks again, everyone.
~oldskool