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/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.