I have an external hard drive and I would like to transfer the information on it to my macbook pro

I have just received a Macbook pro for Christmas and I am trying to transfer info from an external hard drive to my mac but I am totally clueless. Please help!!

You can use Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant to migrate from the old computer's backup disk to the new computer. If you use Setup Assistant, that would be when you first power on the new computer and it will create user accounts on the new computer to match the old one and migrate files and programs (at last the ones that will run on the new computer) from your backup to the new computer.
Migration Assistant is similar but is run after you have the new computer up and running (e.g. you didn't run Setup assistant on the very first power up).
P.S. This is exactly what I did for our Macbook Air, obtained in 2011, to get it set up with everyting from an older (2008) iMac. I ran Setup Assistamt with the Time Machine backup from the old computer connected via USB to the Macbook Air. All the proprietary software (MS-Office, Adobe Photoshop, etc.) was migrated over without having to re-enter serial numbers and the like, all emails and browser bookmarks were migrated, all user files and settings were migrated, even wireless router ids and passwords. The only thing I had to reinstall was the driver software for a Canon wireless printer/scanner.

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tt2

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lllaass wrote:
Yes, you should format the HD.
A Mac can natively write to a NTSF drive and that is what most drives com formatted with.
You should use the Mac journaled format.
Once again you are posting incorrect information
Until we know what format the drive is it is impossible to state that it must be formatted - that is just a guess
And a Mac can not Natively write to an NTSF drive - it can natively read it but can not write to it with special software
And since formatting a drive erases it it is critical to tell users not to format until they have a positively known good backup
The TOU for these forum state that you should test your answers prior to posting them -- you obviously are not doing that and you advice is endangering users photos - please only post tested answers
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Method 1
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Sheesh - I know that I'm not helping your problem but maybe now you've learned your lesson and others will as well.
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Javeck wrote:
Thanks, after i did that i got about 1.5GB back. i usually just shut it off.
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