Help on Opening .JPG and .MP3 files

Dear Forum Members,
I have purchased a new 20inch imac a few day ago and is having difficulties opening files from an external hard-disk. The files were saved using a window XP computer (it crashed and died - thus my move to imac). I can see the files on the external hard-disk, but the imac hangs (e.g. cannot force quit iphoto or itune) when I try to open any file, regardless of jpg, mp3, mov extensions.
I would greatly appreciate your help as 5 years of my children's photos are on it, including my whole collection of scanned CDs.
Thanks
Dan

What happens if you try to copy these files to your iMac first? Your problem may not be that applications quit when opening but rather you're having problems simply accessing the disk.
If your external disk was formatted as NTFS by your Windows machine then your Mac will not be able to write back to the disk. Your applications may be attempting to save temporary or permanent files back to the disk. Verify this by going to the Apple menu and selecting "About This Mac". Click the "More Info..." button. Under the Hardware section on the left, look for your drive. It's probably under ATA. Select your drive and look at the "File System". If it is formatted as NTFS, you can copy the files to your iMac, and use the Disk Utility to reformat the drive to a Mac or MS-DOS format.
This could also be a symptom of disk corruption. You can begin troubleshooting by using the Disk Utility found in /Applications/Utilities to verify/repair your disk. If Disk Utility finds problems but is unable to fix them, you can purchase third party tools such as DiskWarrior or TechTool Pro to attempt to repair your disk.
Hope this helps! bill
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