Question for Virtual PC users

johnnybravojohnnybravo
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
Quick recap: I have a couple of Firewire hard drives formatted in the Windows NTFS format. OS X cannot read these disks and wants to format them when connected to a Mac. They contain a lot of video that I want to use with iDVD when I get a new PowerMac.

Question: Will the drives show up in My Computer on the Windows XP desktop in Virtual PC and will I be able to copy the video to my Mac internal drive to work with?



I have searched the internet and get varying "answers"; it appears Virtual PC CAN read NTFS disks but not when connected by a Firewire connection but I have yet to find a definitive answer. Surely someone out there has either done this or attempted it?



Thanks in advance.

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    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by JohnnyBravo

    Will the drives show up in My Computer on the Windows XP desktop in Virtual PC and will I be able to copy the video to my Mac internal drive to work with?



    Yes, but that's a complicated and slow solution. Why not just share that drive over SMB?
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