How do I transfer my external hard drive from PC to Mac?

Fortunately, using an external hard drive to move files is easy. Just plug the external drive’s USB cable into your PC and copy your files to the drive. After everything is copied, shut down Windows, unplug the hard drive’s data cable from the PC, and plug the cable into your Mac.

Can you use an external hard drive on both Mac and PC?

Want to use one external drive for both your Windows PC and your Mac machine? Windows uses NTFS while Mac OS uses HFS, and they’re incompatible with each other. However, you can format the drive to work with both Windows and Mac by using the exFAT filesystem.

How do I share files between Mac and PC external hard drive?

Transfer Data

  1. Connect the external hard drive to your Mac.
  2. Drag the files you want to transfer to the external hard drive’s icon on your desktop.
  3. Drag the hard drive icon to the Trash when the files have finished transferring.
  4. Connect the hard drive to your Windows computer.

How do I transfer files between Mac and PC?

How to share files between a Mac and a PC

  1. Open System Preferences on your Mac.
  2. Click Sharing.
  3. Click the checkbox next to File Sharing.
  4. Click Options…
  5. Click on the checkbox for the user account you’d like to share with a Windows machine under Windows Files Sharing. You might be asked to enter a password.
  6. Click Done.

How do you read a Mac drive on a PC?

Connect your Mac hard drive to your PC computer using a USB or other cable. Open the Start menu and click on the “My Computer” icon. Your Mac hard drive will now show up in the list of available drives, and you will be able to read and write data on it.

Can windows read Mac drives?

Windows can’t normally read Mac-formatted drives, and will offer to erase them instead. But third-party tools fill the gap and provide access to drives formatted with Apple’s HFS+ file system on Windows.

How do you connect a hard drive?

Connect an external hard drive. If the external hard drive requires a power cord, connect it to the back of the hard drive. The end of the power cord that connects to the hard drive is usually a small round connector.