Windows HDs on MacOSx
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- TheAnthonyWallace
forgive my noob knowledge of the Mac OS, i just got my first MacBook, coming from a long line of PC use.
I'm trying to use my external hard drives from my PC past on my new Mac. of course, they can read, but not write.
I'm trying to figure out the best solution for keeping the drives formatted to allow for read/write for both mac and pc, since i will be using them for both often.
I've done some googling and basically saw that a solution might be the following:
Free NTFS for Mac
There are free solution available, but it comes with the price of extra configurations.
Step 1. Install FUSE for Mac OS XFUSE for Mac OS X allows you to extend Mac OS X's native file handling capabilities via third-party file systems. OSXFUSE is a successor to MacFUSE, which has been used as a software building block by dozens of products, but is no longer being maintained. The latest version supports Snow Leopard and Lion.
Step 2. Install NTFS-3GOne bad news, NTFS-3G is no longer maintained. We have to install old version of NTFS-3G. ownload here and install. Now restart the machine and attach a drive.
anyone try this? any better solutons to allow read/write for both PC and MACosX on an external?
(ps.. i reformatted one of the drives to mac os format using the disk utility, and it doesnt read at all on my pc now. so doing that wont be useful).
- ArmandoEstrada0
FAT 32.
- ArmandoEstrada0
As far as writing to your other drives, you might just want to copy the files to another drive, format as ms-dos, and copy back. will take the most time but the easiest.
- keep in mind it will have the same limitations as a fat 32, i think there is a 2 gig file size limit?ArmandoEstrada
- 4gigaanderton
- TheAnthonyWallace0
so no need to do any installs of third party stuff or anything, just reformat it to the ms-dos fat format, and its read/write for both mac and pc? if so, quick and easy solution.
- ArmandoEstrada0
welcome to the mac....
- aanderton0
Go fat32. Limited to 4gig file size though, guess it depends on what you're using the hard drive for.
- ernexbcn0
FAT 32 would be the most painless way, with the limitations stated above.
- jaylarson0
If yr drives are formatted ntfs, use Tuxera Ntfs. Solid. Waaay beter than Paragon.
http://www.tuxera.com/products/t…
- Daithi0
Second vote for Tuxera. You get what you pay for.