I have a good client/friend that has cancer. He is having major surgery in about 2 weeks. I've been telling him to get a drive for me to transfer a bunch of music for him to use on his ipod and at home. I have an external in my office which I reformatted by accident. I have a 1 tb drive at home that is Mac OS formatted. I would like to be able to transfer about 400 gb of music from this drive to his new 1 tb Seagate Freeagent (not Mac OS). He uses a pc. Is there anyway for me to do this?

Mike,

I'm sure there's a way. The simplest path to me would seem to be to reformat the office drive (presumably currently not in use) as a FAT32 volume that could easily be seen by the MAC. You could then transfer the files to that external drive (if it's big enough) and simply give the drive to your friend or use it to transfer files to his drive.

His new drive is a 1 TB Freeagent (windows version). If I reformat the office drive to FAT32 and then transfer the music from my Mac drive to it, I will then be able to connect the FAT32 drive to a windows machine and transfer to his 1 TB drive? I wanted to make sure I understood. Thanks.

NTFS-3G for Mac OS X

NTFS driver for mac.

Thanks Dan. Question, does this get installed on my macs drive or the mac external drive?

Good luck to your friend.

Good luck to your friend.

Thanks!

Thanks Dan. Question, does this get installed on my macs drive or the mac external drive?

It gets installed on your Mac. It basically allows you to write on NTFS partitions/drives directly from OS X.

It gets installed on your Mac. It basically allows you to write on NTFS partitions/drives directly from OS X.

When I tried to do that I get this message:

You cannot install NTFS-3G 2009.2.1 Update 1 [stable build] on this volume. MacFUSE is not installed. Please download and install it from macfuse - Google Code before attempting to install NTFS-3G.

When I tried to do that I get this message:

You cannot install NTFS-3G 2009.2.1 Update 1 [stable build] on this volume. MacFUSE is not installed. Please download and install it from macfuse - Google Code before attempting to install NTFS-3G.

Oh right, MacFUSE. Install that first and NTFS driver should install just fine.

Thanks guys, it's working great.

Good luck to your friend Mike. I hope everything works out well.

Good luck to your friend Mike, I hope the surgery is successful. And a speedy recovery.

Good luck to your friend and Kudos to his friend.

Thanks everyone. He's having about 2/3 of his liver removed and a piece of his colon.

Best of luck to your friend and a tip of the hat to you for trying to make things better for him.

He was in the office yesterday. You would never know there was anything wrong from looking at him. He is facing about a 6 to 8 hours surgery.

Thanks.

Damn, that is intense! Sorry your buddy is going through this, Mike, but you are a good friend as always.