Cant Transfer File from Mac to External Hard drive? Drive Formatted in NTFS?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ธ.ค. 2016
- WARNING!!! Formatting means the same as deleting or erasing! Also I am not responsible if anything goes wrong so do at your own risk!
If you cannot transfer a data/file from your Mac to your external hard drive it may be because the external hard drive is formatted in a NTFS file system which is used for a Windows PC only. If it has a NFTS file system then only a Mac / Apple computer can read it but cannot write to it.
Therefore if you want to move files between a Mac & Windows and vice versa you need a file system that works for them of them (fat32 or expat).
Important Note: Remember when you format a drive you are basically deleting everything on that drive!
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You should really consider turning the Click sound up even louder and make your voice even quieter.
+James Franko lol!! Message noted. I don't enable clicking sound anymore.
I hope James Franko was being sarcastic.
Nice video but the clicking sound was really annoying.
Keep up the great work.
Total sarcasm. The clicking was the most obnoxious sound ever. Making a video 101, turn the effing click sound off. It's common sense
lol Im dying from this comment :D
should delete the annoying video
I was puzzled for about 30 minutes as to why I couldn’t move files to my newly purchased external hard drive, but you are the hero of today. Straightforward video with great explanations. Thank you!
6 years later and still helping ppl out! Exactly what I needed. Thanks!
Facts! I just used it 💯 The power of youtube. I saw another video that was trying to get me to download an app from the website, I was like next and came across this helpful video
Thank you very much for teaching us this! For years I have wondered why some external drives allow file transfer between both Mac and PC (these external drives were likely already formatted as ExFAT), or did not allow transfer of Mac files to the external drive (these drives were likely formatted as OS X Extended). Simple solution and great tutorial!
This was EXTREMELY helpful. I’m a complete computer dummy and I was able to follow you step by step. Thank you so much!
Yep!!!😂
Woulda never figured this out on my own. Simple, easy, perfect! Thanks!!!
This is 6years later. Came across your video today. Thank you so much. You’ve saved me from a week of frustration not being able to transfer to my drive.
Thank you so much! This video helped me a lot. Totally saved all the videos I was planning to delete just to free up space! God bless you!
Hey guy making the video put the "WARNING" at the START of your video. You're not doing us folks lazy enough to read the video description any favours. I'm pissed cause you cost me a lot of money & time, not to mention permanent loss of some data. Thanks for your video & thanks to ios. The best! For real
Brilliant, I thought my hard drive was going to end up in the bin until I watched this video
Thank you for such an 'easy to follow' video. I was finally able to move files from my Macbook to a hard drive that was originally formatted on a Windows laptop.
Thank you!!! Was lost for a minute, but it all came back. I'm glad people like you create these walk throughs!
Thanks Man ! I've been always wondering why I couldn't transfer my files onto my external device until I saw your video ! Really appreciated !
really helpful especially when you explained the different formats and what they can do. Thanks, I can set up my hard drive with confidence now! :)
+London In Style happy to hear this thank you. I usually get the you talk too much ha.
The mouse is getting me crazy.. but the video really helped me. Thank you!
Dude, I love you. Never would have figured this out by myself, you've saved like 400GB of my files for me
Dude.. THANK YOU! 2 Years after you posted this, it's still an issue and your video helps solve it.
👍👍🤟
This was extremely helpful -- thank you! I managed to fix my mom's external hard drive with this video. We had no idea what was wrong before but were able to fix it quickly once we watched! :)
This was EXTREMELY EXTREMELY helpful!! Thank you bunches.
Jocelyn Elena No he is just making another new device in side the MacBook and named it as U32 ....new u32 device is not external hard drive it’s a folder that created inside n Mac n transferring file from Mac to Mac .....
Seriously, after six months of trying all that I could, including other suggestions from youtube videos, this is the only video that specified the root of the problem why I wasn't able to transfer my Mac pictures on to my USB! Thank you so much for this valuable information.
Thank you so much! I couldn’t figure this out and almost returned the product. You’re video was extremely helpful and easy to follow and still useful 5 years later!
Can you please let me know how to recover the lost data now? Kindly reply
😂 I was looking for a video tutorial how to transfer Apple file to my windows USB drive and watching the video hmm 🤔 he sounds familiar then saw iluvtrading, you have so many tutorials out. Liked 👍
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Worked like a charm! Many thanks for your help! ☺️
This was super helpful! Thank you!
7 years later and this video is still helping people out! thanks man
Thank you...that was extremely easy to follow. really appreciated.
**READ THE WARNING** This ERASES your External Hard Drive!!
Late...that warning should be mentioned in the main video. This is a disaster!
EXACTLY!!!!
can u get it back somehow????????
Its a disaster... Have removed all the files😭😭😭
Yea fuck same happened to me! Anyone figured out steps to resolve this?
Fantastic explanation and a great video. Solved my problem. Thank you!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I'm so bad with technical stuff and this video helped me a lot!
Thank you! Super helpful. Follow it and worked perfect.... took two days because I had so many movies on the hard drive but every single one is back on and working perfectly.
Renee Sawyer pls tell me how did u get back everythin frm the hard disk?
instructions unclear: computer became sentient and downloaded my cat
such a helpful and straight forward video. Thank you for solving my issue with my hard drive!
Video was helpful !Thank you so much🙏
Thank you very much for this video, I appreciate it!
good video and good info but maybe consider checking the volume of your mic before you record and turning off the sound of your mouse when you click on something. Thank you for the video
YO! For me, this was right to the point! Thanks much for the help!
Extremely useful tutorial . It was done with clarity . Thank you . I was able to transfer my files from MacBook Pro to Sony external hard disk . It had the format of NTFS. But after changing to EXFAT I was able to transfer . Thank you so much for this extremely good video tutorial 💕💕💕
I found this helpful to understanding why I couldn't move things and it was exactly the NTFS thing. I didn't want to risk deleting everything so I just used another flash drive that did work on the Mac to transfer my files onto there first and then used my Windows PC to transfer it from the small flash drive to my backup drive. A bit longer, but at least I have everything where I want it now!
I'm in the same boat.
"It's a 500 gigger" made me laugh hahaha I never heard anyone say that hahaha thumbs up from me!!
Bro I laughed hard asf at that
Woohooo!! It worked! Thank you so much for sharing this. Very easy to follow and thoroughly explained.
This enabled me, definitely a software user rather than a Apple pro, to fix my problem myself!!!!! THANK YOU!
such a nice video, although id prefer the click sound to be more louder
This was incredibly helpful, thank you!
concise and information. other youtube vids make this process a lot harder than it is. thanks for the great video!
THANK YOU! This was really helpful.
some of yall shouldve known it was gonna erase shit when he said ‘youre gonna want to click erase’
THANK YOU !! This is really helpful . Honestly I don’t mind the clicking sound at all , it lets me know when u r making a click so I can follow along fully . Thank you !!
This was so helpful thank you so much!
This video helped so much! Thank you for sharing!
Struggling with finishing the video because of the clicking sound..It irritated me to the point where I couldn't focus on what you were saying
Ummm why would I want to erase everything on my hard drive just to make it compatible?!?
Thank you so much for sharing! This was very helpful!
Nice job buddy - quick, gets right to the point, thanks!
Now I erased everything I had on my external hard drive... Thank you for your
I did the same. Can i undo it? Help!
thank you for your
this vid teach me how to delete all my files & documents, shit....
Same ... Is it possible to retrieve it somehow?
That's why you should backup your files. The tutorial wasn't completely clear on that, but you should definitely make a copy of your files on your computer before messing with Disk Utility.
@@dominikaleszko7366 if you watch the video closely , he does say to take the items off the hard drive onto your mac first. Then you drag back on after the formatting is done :)
pay attention lol
@@stevengodwin1773 HOW CAN I RETRIEVE IT IF I DONT HAVE BACK UP? UMMM SEND HELP
Kristine May Cister save to your mac first , then transfer later
This video was unbelievably helpful
Very useful video! Right to the point, and I got my issue fixed in less than 10 minutes! You didn't go over the "Scheme" part of the configuration, but I could see what you chose when I slowed down the video so I just went with it. Worked! Thanks, and big thumbs up!
That clicker sound - and youre rambling! Apart from that the information was good
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you’re saving lives!
Hell no’
Thanks for her video! I have a maschine that I got for Christmas and I was downloading some sample sounds from a website that I liked and I couldn’t for the life of me move the samples over into my hard drive and that was an issue because those samples eat up the storage space on my Mac. This video helped me so much and now I can finally move them all to my external hard drive. You were a huge help my dude!
Thank you for this video! Super helpful
Very helpful video, so sorry you had such nasty comments .. Thank you for explaining this ... Most appreciated
NOOOO! I didn't read the description... I really wish you could've said it at the start of the video. Now I lost all my files in the hard drive. It wa basically my life. Now i pray that I get my files back...
bro i also lost all my files...please tell me what you have done to recover your data..
@@prajwalrawat5435 if u find a way tel me too!!!
If you haven't figure it out yet... Use system recovery on your disk to recover files ... Or take it to a recovery center and pay like 100 bucks or download the recovery software which cost 100 bucks
@@bryanescalante2871 hey mannz, i just deleted my stuff and would be great if u could teach me how to do a system recovery...
same happed to me.. lost all my data!
Thanks for the info! Really helpful.
fantastic, so we have to erase all the drive.. brilliant!
I thought I heard you say that all the files would get deleted!! So I read the comments first & of course a bunch of people deleted their files!!
So grateful for this video! Just got a new Mac and learning everything over. Boy is it complicated
Hey, Thank You. This was really good and straight forward. You helped me out. Thank you
A warning should be given at the start of the video. Thank you, I just ended up deleting my 1 TB data.
Me Too!!
same!
For some reasons after doing made my hard drive not work anymore?
That was really helpful! Thank you
The only video that’s helped me finally🙌🏻Thanks a lot!!!
But is there any way to do that without even loosing any of my data?
Like converting NTFS to ExFat, but without erasing/formatting the whole disk.
copy the files to ur desktop first, then copy it back to the hard drive and delete from desktop
@@evanyoon1230what if u got no space on the computer
@@lil_emothugg my predicament exactly
@@michaelfitzpatrickjr Mac is such a pain to use. It's mandatory to use it at work and I can't format my hardisk as I have no space on my computer
@@lil_emothugg the only way to do it is unfortunately, either buy another drive or borrow it from someone. Yep, its a pain in the butt. I avoid this by formatting all my drive to exfat before using
You screwed me up big time. Lost all my files and pictures from my external hard drive. You should given a red flag warning.
I believe he mentions it briefly at 5:10
@Maurice nda hi there, could you please give more info about Recuva i have ersed everything, was aspecting back up warning but did not pop up.
This is not 1st grade he explained it clearly
@Maurice nda after i change the format of my external HD so that it can be written in mac, it won't read in PC. how to solve this?
@Maurice nda thanks so much for answering. but if i reformat it again will it wipe my data again though? i try to back it up somewhere but it is so big
This video was so helpful
Thank u so much
doesnt help if you have stuff you dont want to erase on the hard drive
That was it. Thank you!
-Someone who doesn't know crap about Macs.
Thank you!!!! just got a Mac and don't know anything about them. This was so helpful
Wow !! So helpful and so simple! Thank you so much for the video!!!
great but please next time watch with the clicking of the mouse. It just beats into the head when listening to the text.
You never clarified if changing this setting would erase all the info. You also didn't state whether or not this could be done after data has been transferred to external drive. I'm think you are assuming people already know this....? But you know what happens when we ASSuME...?
My god are you deluded or just a pure child thats only learning, when u go to erase your entire external it prompts you that everything on your HDD will be destroyed meaning erased....
If you have a Seagate hard drive and you don't want to delete your data, this is for you. www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/item/ntfs-driver-for-mac-os-master-dl/
Thank you dearly William! it worked and this has helped me a lot!
Thnx William Pichette for the info !
luis reznick can u pls tell me?? If we can get it back???? Frm the hard disk 😭😭
wow!! Huge thank you. Super clear video and helped me in like 3 seconds!
Thank you very much. This video is really helpful and it's a life saving ❤❤❤
i tried this and i get the message "disk erase failed with error: invalid request" any ideas? I followed your video step by step.
Did you ever figure it out? Having the same problem
same pls let me know
did any of you figure it out?
Same error
This deleted everything on my drive!!!the trash is also empty!how can i get them back??
Dont use the drive before u use data recovery software to recover the files. Otherwise, say bye to your files
Thank you! That was very helpful. Appreciate you.
Helped greatly. Thank you
I lost all my files. You should have had the warning at the start of your video and not on your comments.
sammmee
This is not a solution, you are just formatting the external disk under FAT32 but you are not giving a solution to be able to transfer data from and to an external disk NTFS with a Mac. I have the problem, that I have downloaded movies to my Mac but I cannot copy them on my external disk (NTFS) which is the format that can be read by my Samsung TV. The TV does not read FAT32. Thanks
Yup, same here. I am not sure if the exfat can be read by my popcorn media player.
Omg Yass!!! Thanks so much. You deserve a sub
Great video, exactly what I was looking for!
Mac is the most shittest thing I have ever seen in my whole life , who said mac never crashed ? my mac crashed every time . cant transfer files in easy way have to buy new external drive to change its format into exFAT are you kidding me ? I am in office and can't transfer files with this stupid mac
Aneeb Artist HAHAHAHA
Can't hear u
Thank you for this video! Very helpful since I just got a used MacBook Pro
OMG! after several hours of trying to figure out how to get pics of my old Mac and saved to external hard drive, I ran across your tutorial! crossing my fingers it works but so far so good. They don't tell you that you need to buy certain hard drives for Mac
That was super helpful!! Thank you so much
Great and quick explanation, worked for me, many thanks !!! :)
Thank you for posting this. I was completely stuck but it only took me 10 minutes to sort out the issues and it now works perfectly!
Thanks for this Valuable Information , Helpful
Thank you so much! This really helped me 👍