Hi, I'd like to drag and drop some of my iTunes 11 music onto a

former WD backup bootable drive to later view/and play on a PC laptop running a Microsoft OS. What problems might I encounter for compatibilty? The laptop is a new ssd drive Toshiba with a factory "media player".
Thank you,
Scott

As I said before, Windows can't read Mac formatted drives without special software. My information may be out of date but Macs can't write to NTFS (standard Windows format) drive but can read (the opposite of what you want to do). Both Macs and Windows can read/write to FAT formatted drives. FAT is an older Windows format and has certain disadvantages when it comes to huge files (>4GB) but should work in your case. However, it will require you completely erase the drive and reformat it to "MS-DOS" (again with reference to my older operating system).

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dewin1or wrote:
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I really hope that this is the right sub-forum for this.
Here goes:
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