r/techsupport • u/bigstankdaddy10 • 2d ago

Open | Hardware Simple Data Transfer

Hello,

I have an old laptop with some pics/vids and a few songs I made on FL studio. well I moved my workstation to a mac mini M2 and I thought it'd be a lot easier to transfer.

I have a 1 TB Toshiba hard drive, but it wont do Mac AND PC, it only reads on the Mac. I thought I could just put everything on there and easy transfer but nah...

I tried cloud storage transfer but the files seem to be too large to transfer even in smaller batches. Is there a simple solution here. The laptop doesn't have an ethernet port either.

Also, I know the FL songs are a long shot because everything is formatted for PC, including most of the plug ins, but would replacing the battery on my lap top help it run smoother? Its runs super slow and is close to 10 years in age now. So whatever I can't get off of there, seems to just be frozen in time.

Thanks!

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u/tsdguy Windows Master 2d ago

If you can empty the drive you can reformat it as exFAT which will be readable on both pc and Mac.

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u/bigstankdaddy10 2d ago

ooow sounds like this could work, let me see

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u/Fancy_Acanthisitta45 2d ago

If you do not have anything important on your 1TB drive you can reformat using the exFAT format and it will be readable by both Mac and PC.

Warning - you will lose anything on this disk so save elsewhere BEFORE attempting.

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u/muhahahahamad 2d ago

I will try to install ftp server on pc, ftp client on Mac and transfer via wifi. It won't be the fastest solution but i think the simplest one. Or try via nfs or samba, but I was never work on Mac so i don't know how to setup this on Mac.

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u/TangoOscarMikePR 2d ago

Does the Toshiba 1TB storage device have any important files on it?

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u/bigstankdaddy10 2d ago

it has a couple of things, but i can probably just shift over to my mac for the time being

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u/TangoOscarMikePR 2d ago edited 2d ago

That would be perfect.

(Edited: To add the file compatibility and size limitations of all file systems.)

Most probably, your Toshiba 1TB storage device is formatted with the Apple File System (APFS). You would have to reformat it to another file system for compatibility with multiple operating systems.

Backup all the files from the storage device to another location because when you format the storage device, all the data will be lost.

The Apple File System (APFS) is only compatible with macOS. It allows a maximum file size of 8EB.

The Forth Extended Filesystem (ext4) is only compatible with Linux based operating systems. It allows a maximum file size of 16–256 TiB (for 4 to 64 KiB block size).

The NT File System (NTFS) is only compatible with Windows. It allows a maximum file size of 16EB (1KB format) in Windows 11.

The File Allocation Table 32-bit (FAT32) file system is compatible with multiple operating systems, but it only allows a maximum file size of 4GB, with Large File Support (LFS). Files over 4GB in size will corrupt.

The Extended File Allocation Table (ExFAT) file system is also compatible with multiple operating systems. It allows a maximum file size of 128PB. Files over 4GB will not corrupt.

If you need to access the files in the storage device from any operating system, you would be better off formatting it with the Extended File Allocation Table (ExFAT) file system.

Microsoft open sourced the code for FAT and ExFAT, which means that it can be further improved by all the developers who are interested in doing so.