You could also buy an external drive now and copy the data files to it from your XP machine before you get the Mini. I’m not sure whether Mac os reads the ntfs files system, but you could format the drive as fat32 to be on the safe side.
Chris On Jan 22, 2014, at 7:52 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli <sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all: > I have an old XP machine with two internal hard drives. The main drive runs > XP and has files on it. I have a Seagate internal drive in the machine as > well. It's 250GB and is used to store data. In April when XP is discontinued, > I'm probably going to buy a Mac mini to replace that desktop. Is there way I > can buy a couple of drive enclosures to put around those internal drives so I > can use them on my mini to access the data? Has anyone done this? > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
