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Can't see the restore option on Mac Bok Pro

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I have successfully backed up folders and files, mainly office ( word, excel, access, etc.) from my windows 7 based pc to a local USB drive and would now like to restore them on my new Mac Book Pro. I have loaded Acronis onto the Mac, plgged in the USB drive and can't see a restore option.

Any ideas?

Regards

David

 

 

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1) I have a feeling your local USB drive is formatted as NTFS (if you were able to copy and paste files from Windows to it and this is an external USB drive, NTFS is usually the default).  Macintosh sysetms do not use NTFS - by default, they use OS X Journaled paritions.  They can also read/write to FAT32 and EXFAT partions (and so can Windows).  However, NTFS is native to Windows only... but, a MAC should at least be able to read the contents of an NTFS formatted drive, but you won't be able to copy to/from an NTFS drive on a MAC.

2) Backup files created in Acronis for Windows are not compatible with Acronis for Macintosh and vice-versa - each one is a specific product meant to backup and restore back to the original system type.  I have been able to take a full disk image of a USB flash drive using Acronis for OS X (it was a bootable Acronis USB flash drive for Windows and restore that full disk image using the Windows version of Acronis to another USB drive, but never the other way around and I believe it only worked because it was a full disk image of a FAT32 formatted USB flash drive which both OS are capable of handling.  

As these are just file/folders, why not just copy and paste them from the Windows PC to a FAT32 formatted USB or flash drive and then copy and paste them from the flash or USB drive back to the Mac?  Or use something like Google Drive or another free Cloud stroage provider as a staging point for a copy and paste if you have decent bandwidth to upload and download from again?  Once the files have been moved, then back them up on the new system and you can recover them from backups down the road.  

 

Thank you Bobbo_3COX1 for your quick response. I guess i will have to format a USB drive to FAT32 and use the good old copy and paste options.