Thanks, Mike. These are just drives to store things anyway; not a backup drive.

On Aug 7, 2011, at 7:11 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote:

> The mac can read ntfs but not write to it, if you want the drive to be read 
> and written to on both platforms, format it as fat32
> On Aug 7, 2011, at 12:26 AM, Paul Henrichsen wrote:
> 
>> It appears you can't copy files from a Mac to a passport NTFS drive. It must 
>> first be formatted to Mac extended journal.
>> I was hoping to copy files to the NTFS drive so I could retrieve them on 
>> either Mac or windows.
>> You can retrieve files from an NTFS drive, but it doesn't appear you can 
>> copy to it from a Mac.
>> 
>> On Aug 6, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Cody wrote:
>> 
>>> open the first drive, interact with the area where your files area, press 
>>> command C, then navigate to your destination folder in the finder and press 
>>> command V
>>> 
>>> hth,
>>> Cody
>>> On Aug 6, 2011, at 9:55 PM, Paul Henrichsen wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Is there a way to copy from one external drive to another?
>>>> Thanks. 
>>>> 
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