Iomega eGo external hard drive/transferring data PC -> Mac?

Question

My friend has an Iomega eGo, which is formatted to his Macbook. I have a PC and ordering a Mac, and I want to use his external hard drive to transfer a bunch of stuff from my PC to my Mac. In order to do this, apparently you have to reformat the hard drive for a PC, would this delete everything he has on it already? Or is reformatting even necessary? If this isn't possible, what is the easiest way to transfer a lot of data (music, pictures, etc) from one computer (PC) to another (Mac)?

Answer 1

O.K?....One more time?...........

Answer 2

Ego External Hard Drive

Answer 3

Yes reformatting erases everything.



All macs can read FAT32 and HFS+ and NTFS.

All macs can write FAT32 and HFS+

Only Snow Leopard has built in support for Reading and Writing to NTFS.



All Windows can Read and Write to is NTFS and FAT32.



I suggest formatting the drive as FAT32 to avoid any read or write problems for mac and pc - it will work on both.