Hey everyone, so i have a situation i need help with.
I recently switched over from my HP Omen laptop to a new MacBook Pro. Not knowing about the data formatting situation, I backed up all my data from my old laptop onto my Seagate Expansion Portable Drive 2TB. When using my MacBook, I noticed I couldn't upload files to this harddrive because the file formatting was different.
I found on the internet that to switch the external harddrive from NTFS to APFS I can use Disk Utility to reformat the device. For this to happen however i have to backup the files that I have on my external harddrive, because to reformat it the harddrive has to be erased.
The thing is, if i back-up the files to my old HP Omen, I can't reupload the files back to my external hard drive because it has been reformatted to APFS, and the files are NTFS. I also can't back-up the files to my new MacBook, because the size of my files is way to big for the internal storage of my Macbook!
Is the only option for this really just to buy another external harddrive coded to APFS, or keep my files on my hard drive on my old dusty laptop that barely functions? This feels like a catch-22 situation to me.
Sorry if this question has a) been answered already or b) is not relevant to this subreddit. Any help is appreciated!