[rbcarson]

I have a Mac Mini with an external HD attached. On this external drive I have my entire 18.3 GB collection of MP3's that I use with iTunes. I want to also have this MP3 collection on my PC. However when I hook this drive to my PC it will not even see the drive. When i plug my PC external HD to the MAC it will see it fine.

How can I get my Mac mini collection of MP3's copied to my PC?

Thanks!

[seanc]

Your external HDD is probably formatted for HFS which Windows cannot read.
I'm sure there is a program around somewhere to read HFS disks, I seem to recall Mac Drive or something was able to do it or HFS Explorer?

[jaydon34]

Put the mp3s back on your mini hd. They format the external so that It can be read by a windows machine. I did when I hooked up my external. Then put your files back on it and your set to go.

[rbcarson]

Thanks a ton!! Reformatting the drive to be MS-DOS based worked perfectly. I can use the external drive on both my Mac and PC.

[icruise]

Just remember that there are some file names that the Mac can use but Windows can't. I ran into trouble copying MP3s from a Mac to a MSDOS-formatted drive once because there were filenames like this, and it was kind of a pain to sort it out.

The other option is to get (buy) software for your Windows machines that allows it to read Mac disks.

[jaydon34]

Yeah anytime