How can I transfer songs (Itunes) and photos from a Mac HD to a PC?

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Michael

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My Mac recently broke down and I had to sell it. I had all the songs, photos, docs, etc. backed up to an external HD. Is there a way I can transfer those off of that HD to my PC?

There is another Mac in the house that I can use since the HD is formatted for Macs.
 
Sure.

1. Boot up a Ubuntu Linux CD on your Windows PC.

2. Plug in the Mac-formatted drive.

3. It'll show up on the desktop as an icon. Double-click it.

4. Go to Places and find your Windows hard drive and select it. Afterwards, that will also appear as a desktop icon. Double-click that as well.

5. Copy the files from the HFS+-formatted external hard drive to the NTFS-formatted Windows drive. (You will have to copy and not cut and paste, as Linux can only read from and not write to HFS+, but it can read from and write to NTFS just fine.)

6. Reboot (you'll be prompted to remove the CD a tthe appropriate time).
 
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