What will happen if i plug in an external HD that is/was used for a pc?

Here's the deal: I have a Hewlett-Packard PC which i rarely use anymore and it has one of those dockable-in-the-cpu-tower 300g Hard drives. I want to start using it for my two iMacs that I have. I am surmising that this HD is pc formatted and I want to know how to start using it with my apple computers. What are the steps necessary to do this? Thanks....
....oh, ... when i say that I want to start using it ..."it" means the external hard drive .... I want to start using this portable hd for my iMacs. And what I really want to do is to put my iTunes library and photos on this HD. I just have this thing about using up hd space on my iMacs. Please put your two cents in for me...
Message was edited by: ogopogodude

Hi.
PC disks should be FAT32 formatted as they come and if you out the disk into an external drive enclosure be it USB or Firewire, your iMac should be able to mount it and read it.
If you want to use this "re-convert" hard drive as your "permanent" external drive for your iMac and nothing else, I would advise you to reformat the disk to the GUID format (partition), which is recommended for all Intel Macs, because they read and write to external drives a little differently from their PPC counterparts.
Here's the link to how to reformat/re-partition a drive to GUID:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/leopard-disk-utility-format-issue-screws-with-t ime-machine-but-theres-an-easy-fix-316573.php
Cheers

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On 7/29/2010 10:26 AM, brestt wrote:
>
> We are migrating to ZENworks 10. We are almost finished, but there are
> a handful of workstations that have not got the update, due to
> individual computer issues or laptops that aren't plugged in
> frequently.
>
> The E directory administrators would like to uninstall/remove ZENworks
> 7 from the directory.
>
> We are using Group policies, DLU, and some NAL objects.
>
> NAL is no big deal since the user has to run those.
> The absence of DLU should be fine I think since the users already have
> accounts on the local computer. But once they update their edir
> password it won't sync. Which is OK, because they'll call the helpdesk
> and we'll update them to zen10.
>
> Big question, what will happen to the group policies? Will they
> continue to work locally off a cache or will they cease to work all
> together?
>
> Are there any other problems to forsee?
>
>
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