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rnc1971

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Q: i bought a new mac, and i want to migrate data from my old pc external drive to my mac how is this done

Just Recently bought a new Mac, because my old PC crashed again, ( finished w/ microsoft) but now i would like to migrate data from my external drive i used on my PC to my new Mac. i loaded the Migration assitant from utilities but didnt see how to migrate the data from this external drive. which is a SEgate drive. any ideas.

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Jan 6, 2014 2:27 PM

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by baltwo,

baltwo Jan 6, 2014 2:41 PM in response to rnc1971
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Jan 6, 2014 2:41 PM in response to rnc1971

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1408
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by bratman91,

bratman91 Jan 6, 2014 2:55 PM in response to rnc1971
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Jan 6, 2014 2:55 PM in response to rnc1971

Just in case you are not aware of this, you can probably use your external drive, which you presumably now no longer need for your PC, as the backup drive using the Mac's Time Machine. If you still have any Windows specific files that you want to keep, it is really easy to partition the drive so that you can keep Windows files and Mac files in different partitions.
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