connecting hard drive to macbook

I have an external hard drive with both a firewire 800 and usb 2.0 port...I want to connect to a macbook with thunderbolt 3 port...is this possible? Is there a cable I can buy to accomplish this? tia :-)

Posted on Apr 21, 2020 6:14 PM

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Posted on Apr 22, 2020 11:00 AM

Apple store thunderbolt to FireWire adaptor I use the adapter on my old external hard drives

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Apr 22, 2020 11:00 AM in response to staci1981

Apple store thunderbolt to FireWire adaptor I use the adapter on my old external hard drives

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