How do I transfer photos from a pc external drive to my macbook pro?

I am having dificulty in transfering photos and folders with photos to my mac from an external hard drive. It holds everything from my pc laptop.
I have tried copy and pasting into a new album folder, droping the folder from the external onto the mac - - - no results. help!
Thanks so much
Megan

What do you want to do?
To transfer the photos to the mac simply drag them from the EHD to the mac
To use them in iPhoto you must import them into iPhoto - drag them to the iPhoto icon in the dock or use the file menu ==> import command
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