Access to my Files - Not that Easy
With my new Mac up and running, the first order of business was getting access to my files. Most of my data is stored on my Windows PC and one Western Digital USB drive.
Getting access to the USB drive is as easy as it gets - Plug it in and the Mac can work with it. All was fine until I tried to write new data on the drive. That did not work, a closer look revealed that the drive was write-only.
Thanks to Microsoft not giving out required info, Macs can read from NTFS drives - but not write on them…ugh! Since there was no choice, I had to copy 700 GB of files over to the PC, make a brand new HFS+ partition and copy everything back. For those of you unfamiliar with USB drives, that task took roughly 14 hours!
connection between a Mac and a PC is very easy. Just assign Accessing the files on my PC was a bit easier. Thanks to recent improvements, setting up an EthernetIP’s, set drive permissions and off you go - This guide explains it perfectly.
One little glitch crossed my way though as the Microsoft XP firewall was blocking access first. Was that a last try from Microsoft to keep me from enjoying the Mac? If it was, it was already too late!
