How to download movies for hard drive wd to mac

i want to know how to copy movies from my hard drive wd to my mac

what is "wd"?


I use an external hard drive that I put all the movies on and then take over to the mac to either copy to or play from. If you dont have an external, I wouldnt recommend hooking it up to the mac internally (if you have a desktop), get a cheap external HD.

@Max1S

wd (Western Digital)

@sarah9

Just get some 3rd party app to make Mac OS to recognise the NTFS format. Or do what popatim says and stream the video on the network.

Oh yeah, if you want to reformat it to fat32 on a mac, go to Applications/Ultilities/Disk Utility then click on your drive, go to the "erase" tab, and select the new name and file format "fat 32" or just "FAT," then hit erase, wait a minute, and your done.

Mac can read but not write on NTFS (windows format)

Mac and Windows can read and write on FAT32, but if you unplug the drive while its writing, you will end up with a corrupt file, which dosnt happen with NTFS and Mac OS journaled because they have some small backup file that says what it was writing, and so next time you plug it in it fixes the file from last time.

Windows cant do anything with Mac OS journaled format.


If you want to use your drive on a windows and a mac, format it to FAT32.

True, that does get annoying if you have HD movies on disc, or big isos.

But only mac s with snow leopard (OSX 10.6) or newer (lion/ 10.7)can use it.