PC to Mac file transfers

[jaylaudeman]

I have just bought my first hackintosh and I'm waiting for my parts to arrive and wanted to get my files and everything in order for the transfer over. The files I am wanting to transfter are my pictures, videos, and Itunes. Will I be able to take my hard drive from the old computer and put in the hackintosh and copy files over that way or how should I do that? And with itunes, I know in windows if I wanted to copy it I would just copy the My music file and it would keep everything in itunes, is there any way to do that? And my last question is I have a network hard drive that I use as a backup and when I want to transfer files between computers, will the mac be able to read files off of the drive? Thanks for your help I just want to make sure I get this stuff figured out before I start building it all.

 

[Kadin]

I have the 2 drives listed in my signature and I can copy over files from the Win side into OS X just fine. The challenge can occur when you want to copy something from OS X over to Windows though. There are ways around it which I've experimented with but that's for another topic. To answer your question, yes you can install the drive into the machine and SL should have no problem seeing it and allowing you to grab files from it. I'll mention as well that my Win drive is formated NTFS.

 

[jaylaudeman]

Ok that answers my question. My windows drive is NTFS also but I will only be copying files off of it and not going back and forth so it shouldnt be a problem. Thanks!

 

[3tybagig]

I do PC to Mac and vice versa file transfers over gigabit ether. Can transfer at between 80-125MB/s. Works fine. You just need a good gigabit switch or router.

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[jaylaudeman]

For me I am using the case and power supply from the current pc for my new mac so I wont be able to transfer over network that is why I want to put the drive in the mac to transfer files over.

 

[thirdshiftdj]

Paragon NTFS for mac will allow you to read/write NTFS and on the Windows side they have Paragon HFS+. They also have Ext for Linux too.

 

[georgeba]

Tuxera on the Mac and MacDrive on the PC. Files work both ways.

 

[damndoe]

Chrysaor:

Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
This is experimental, and known to be unstable, use at your own risk.

I am sure many of you heard that Snow Leopard was supposed to have native read/write for NTFS partitions. Apple supported NTFS R/W in older SL builds but I guess decided to not to go with it for some reason, however support is still present.
For this, you need to modify your /etc/fstab file to mount NTFS partitions for read and write.

First, uninstall NTFS-3G/Paragon if installed.
Open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal)
Type "diskutil info /Volumes/volume_name" and copy the Volume UUID (bunch of numbers).
Backup /etc/fstab if you have it, shouldn't be there in a default install.
Type "sudo nano /etc/fstab".
Type in "UUID=paste_the_uuid_here none ntfs rw" or "LABEL=volume_name none ntfs rw" (if you don't have UUID for the disk).
Repeat for other NTFS partitions.
Save the file (ctrl-x then y) and restart your system.

After reboot, NTFS partitions should natively have read and write support. This works in both 32 and 64-bit kernels. Support is quite good and fast, it even recognizes file attributes such as hidden files.


Alternative Method by iBlacky:
Rename the original /sbin/mount_ntfs tool:

sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig

Create a script like this:

#!/bin/sh
/sbin/mount_ntfs.orig -o rw "$@“

save the script to /sbin/mount_ntfs

sudo chown root:wheel /sbin/mount_ntfs
sudo chmod 755 /sbin/mount_ntfs

Enjoy R/W access to NTFS volumes...

In case you don't like it

sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig /sbin/mount_ntfs

and everything is back to R/O.

Source: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=785376

 

[damndoe]

Worked great but one thing. I copied files (the Realtek drivers for my motherboard) from Mac OS X to C:\ (e.g. to the /Volumes/Windows/). In windows I could not open them. It told me: no permissions. I tried several things. Moving them etc... then I did CTRL+C and CTRL+V somewhere else = after doing that I could execute/open the newly copied files.

 

[Stork]

Haven't done this in a year or so, but doesn't Snow Leopard's Migration Assistant application allow you copy Windoze data files including iTunes files from an old machine to a new one? Give the Migration Assistant a try.