Comments on: Mac and NTFS

By: gantico

gantico — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:17:29 +0000

There is also a new tool from Paragon that seems to read/write on NTFS with good performances and full access to file rights.

I talk about it in my guide for sharing disks between Mac and PC:http://www.gantico.com/blog/2007/11/mac-pc-sharing-disks/

-CheersGiovanni

By: javier

javier — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:39:22 +0000

Came to this site through google…Maybe MacFUSE is the answer for some of you?I just read about it here: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-to-read-and-write-ntfs-windows-partition-on-mac-os-x.html

Haven’t tried it, but it seems it can read NTFSvolumes in mac os…

Good luck! (and please tell how it works…)/j

By: tws

tws — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:59:32 +0000

Janne said:”Gil, you can use Mac OS X (HFS+) formatted drives in Windows with MacDrive or then mount them through network.”

check out the macdrive reviews on this page bottom,

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/13831

apple + microsoft sucks… individually… they are just as bad

a lot of pissed off people with no viable workaround

By: No Lovin’ for the Mac on NTFS // Words and Interwebs

No Lovin’ for the Mac on NTFS // Words and Interwebs — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:18:50 +0000

[...] Well, I was curious as to why my Mac mini wasn’t turning up Spotlight results for my attached 200GB firewire drive. I knew it was NTFS, and I remember never being able to write to it from a mac, only read. I thought it was just permission issues, so I never investigated further. But now after a little Googlin’, I find that out for sure that it’s more than that. [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:09:40 +0000

I just gt a MacBook Pro, and a LaCie Extreme 250 Gig Drive. I just made the switch from Mac to PC. IMHO, it was way easier to simply format my LaCie into 2 FAT32 drives, 50/50 split. Now I can work in both worlds using BootCamp. I gave my XP system 40 Gigs in NTFS, that way I can still manage files greater than 4 Gigs.

I did consider using all three file systems (MacHS/Fat32/NTFS), but didn’t think it was the smartest thing to be doing to my external.

Haven’t had problems as of yet, hopefully I never will….

By: Max

Max — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:41:53 +0000

I just want to answer alfreds question, I was able to partition an external hard drive with my mac into three partitions, one was Mac OS Extended and the other two where FAT32 and everything worked out just fine. Though you do have to use the disk uttility after starting up with a OS X system disk and not just the disk utillity on the installed OS X.

By: dartrax

dartrax — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:38:03 +0000

@yen:
You wrote about problems using NTFS, FAT32 and HFS+ on one drive. I have the same troubles, i use Win XP on an NTFS-Partition, HSF+ for mac OS and FAT32 for my own files which should be accessible for both, Tiger and XP. I’m getting corrupted or invisible (really invisible, not just hidden) files over and over, ending up with CHKDSK deleting and putting them into FOUND.000 folders every time I restart XP. The last time I tried to rescue them before booting XP I copied files from FAT32 to HFS+, with the result that I had to re-install Mac OS 10 minutes later. Now, on a clean install and clean formattings of all the partitions, the troubles begin again.

Do you have any idea of a possible solution? It’s hard to find something about those troubles on the web. The next thing I’ll do is claiming that XP’s and Mac’s FAT32 support is incompatible and try to use MacDrive instead, but I had already some troubles with their demo-version (bluescreens).

dartrax

By: El-Taweel

El-Taweel — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:16:25 +0000

@tirasus: I just run chkdsk.exe on my external (FAT formatted) 250 GB harddrive. According to you, this should be impossible:

The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume 250GB_FAT32 created 27/2/2006 10:27 PM
Volume Serial Number is XXXX-XXXX
Windows is verifying files and folders…
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problem.
249,569,247,232 bytes total disk space.
20,480 bytes in 3 hidden files.
4,001,792 bytes in 874 folders.
165,191,376,896 bytes in 8.164 files.
84,373,843,968 bytes available on disk.

4,096 bytes in each allocation unit.
60,929,992 total allocation units on disk.
20,599,083 allocation units available on disk.

@Mike: I did try MacDrive with HFS+, however after writing a few hundred files, it started corrupting the file names, randomly cutting (not truncating) them to six or eight letters… that piece of software is even less useful than my cat\\\’s vomit. :-|

Luckily I was just experimenting with and not writing sensible data to that drive…

Had to dig into the registry to remove the stupid red apple icon from the drive symbol in Explorer after repartitioning the disk windows style.