How do I transfer files from my hard drive to the MacBook?

I am a new Mac user and I transferred all of my files that were on my PC to an external hard drive in order to transfer them to the macbook.  However once I plugged in the hard drive to my mac, I don't understand how to transfer my files over.  There's no "My Computer" on a Mac so I don't know how to do it. Step by step instructions please!  Thank you so much!!!!!!!!

milkaballet wrote:
Once yes but I turned it off! Oh no! Whats next?
It sounds like you got a prompt like this:
Clicked Use as Backup Disk, then got this one:
and clicked Erase.  If so, your data has been deleted (not actually erased, regardless of what the message says, although if a backup got started, some of it may have been erased).
But first let's find out what's actually what.
Open the Disk Utility app (in your Applications/Utilities folder).  Click the top line of the drive, similar to this:
then click the line for the volume (indented under the main one):
Report back with the Partition Map Scheme from the first one, and the Format for the second.

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