Next message: Brian Durant: "Re: [WinMac] Transfering data on ATA drives"
> "DUSSAULT, YVES" wrote:
>
> In line with the recent discussion on cross platform Firewire and SCSI drives,
> is it possible to transfer the content of a PC ATA drive to a Mac by
> installing the drive in the Mac on the ATA bus and just copying the files to
> an other drive? I would suspect not but I am not an expert.
>
> It would be a one-time thing so not critical, I have other ways, but this
> would certainly be the fastest.
>
> If this is possible, any gotchas to watch out for?
Last time I did a move like that I used FTP to transfer the files from
one computer to another. That of course means you have to have network
cards in both computers and you have to setup some sort of FTP server on
one of them. I think I used the Mac as the FTP server and logged in
from the PC.
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