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    PC to MAC File transfer via USB possible?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by wobble987, Sep 21, 2006.

  1. wobble987

    wobble987 Notebook Virtuoso

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    hi, is it possible to transfer file from mac to pc via a USB cable? will windows recognise the MAC as a hard drive or what?, will MAC recognise windows as hard drive?

    thanks... in advance :)
     
    wobble987, Sep 21, 2006
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    You can get a router on the internet pretty cheap.
     
    ZaZ, Sep 21, 2006
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    You can't directly link with a USB cable. You could do it with either an 'ethernet crossover cable' which would go between both computers' networking ethernet ports. Or you could do as ZaZ says and get a router, and connect both computers to this via network cables.
     
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    There is a way to leave a Mac in "disk mode", just hold down the "T" key on startup. It only works with firewire cables AFAIK. The cheaper and most foolproof method is buying or making a crossover ethernet cable and configuring a network between the two computers.
     
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    The other problem is that in target disk mode, XP does not know the drive is there. You would need third party software like MacDrive6. The cheapest way would be to try to network them using samba.
     
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    i have a router, but don't have a network configured. what can i do? should i set up a network? would network slow computer down?
     
    wobble987, Sep 21, 2006
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    If I want to switch to mac how do I bring all of my harddrive stuff from pc to new mac? Just do SHARE network and do it that way? But that will take forever so would it work to put it in to a EXTERNAL hdd and then convert it?
     
    vaio_boi, Sep 21, 2006
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    Connect both machines to the router eiher via ethernet or WiFi and see if they can find one another.
     
    ZaZ, Sep 21, 2006
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