Mac mini does not see files on external hard drive

Just got a new Mac Mini and this is my first Mac. How do I get files from my HD to my new mac mini? I backed up the files from my old laptop but when I plug it into my Mac, I don't have any picture or music files.

I had the same problem but only after I upgraded to Lion. I could see the files on my external drive on other Macs using older software. It seems that Lion wasn't seeing old files on the external drive. So we accessed the files on a Mac using Snow Leopard, copied all the files into one new folder on the same external hard drive and now they're there on Lion. Problem solved! I hope this helps

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Hi,
I'm having some trouble with my iMac today. It can't see any files on my NTFS External Hard Drive after a sharing change, I'm using Paragon NTFS for Mac OSX v8.0.0.
Yesterday evening I tried to share the drive over my network by clicking System Preferences / Sharing / File Sharing and then adding the drive as a shared folder. It is since doing this that I cannot see my files on this external HD. I have a second NTFS HD here which I connected and I can see the files on that drive so I don't think it's a software issue.
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iomega 1TB External Hard Drive
Formatted NTFS
Paragon NTFS for Mac OSX v8.0.0

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