External hard drive from PC, how do I get the data onto Mac?

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External hard drive from PC, how do I get the data onto Mac?

Ive just purchased a Mac mini, I've got a buffalo external hard drive that is password protected that I used on my PC. How can I get this data onto Mac?

Posted on Dec 19, 2015 5:50 AM

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BDAqua

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Dec 19, 2015 10:06 AM in response to tjphillips76

First of all, is it formatted NTFS?

https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/NTFS-3G

http://www.cnet.com/news/how-to-manually-enable-ntfs-read-and-write-in-os-x/

http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/

https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

Then, not sure what handles the encryption, but if it's Windows® instead of the Disk Driver, then you'd need Parallels or such.

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tjphillips76 Author

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Dec 19, 2015 9:26 PM in response to BDAqua

TThanks for getting back to me, I Tried all of these but no luck. currently downloading parralels. Hope this works

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BDAqua

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Dec 20, 2015 11:25 AM in response to tjphillips76

Does it show up in Disk Utility?

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Dec 20, 2015 11:34 AM in response to tjphillips76

yes its showing up in there but when I try to find the data it's not coming up. Maybe the password?

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BDAqua

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Dec 20, 2015 11:42 AM in response to tjphillips76

Yeah, at this point I think Windows® under Parallels may be what is needed... unless you can connect it to a PC & do File Sharing.

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