Comments on: Read and Write NTFS Volumes On The Mac http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/06/11142/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:32:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: rookie http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/06/11142/comment-page-1/#comment-393539 rookie Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:28:19 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/06/11142/#comment-393539 I am a complete rookie. I bought a mac to see why the "experts" I know, told me a mac is better than a pc. I later bought an external hard drive - 400GB. at work I have a pc running win xp. - I had to format the hard-drive in order to make the pc recognise the full size of the drive -so it´s now an NTFS partition. From experience with another 80GB hard drive I haven´t been able to write on with the mac I suspect the same will happen with the 400GB drive. Bearing in mind that I have no idea about linux or any other non-windows operating system, can anyone tell me if there is one nice, tidy, simple application I can install on my mac so that I can write back up my garageband stuff on the 400 GB drive? thanx in advance I am a complete rookie. I bought a mac to see why the “experts” I know, told me a mac is better than a pc.

I later bought an external hard drive – 400GB.
at work I have a pc running win xp. – I had to format the hard-drive in order to make the pc recognise the full size of the drive -so it´s now an NTFS partition.

From experience with another 80GB hard drive I haven´t been able to write on with the mac I suspect the same will happen with the 400GB drive.

Bearing in mind that I have no idea about linux or any other non-windows operating system, can anyone tell me if there is one nice, tidy, simple application I can install on my mac so that I can write back up my garageband stuff on the 400 GB drive?
thanx in advance

]]> By: robert http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/06/11142/comment-page-1/#comment-391308 robert Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:55:14 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/06/11142/#comment-391308 they have updated the software to be an easy to install package now - you should fix your post so people don't waste their time using the terminal. they have updated the software to be an easy to install package now – you should fix your post so people don’t waste their time using the terminal.

]]> By: wdarkk http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/06/11142/comment-page-1/#comment-391292 wdarkk Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:33:29 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/06/11142/#comment-391292 When I followed the steps as above, I can no longer access the disk with Startup Disk to restart into windows. Help! When I followed the steps as above, I can no longer access the disk with Startup Disk to restart into windows. Help!

]]> By: Olivier http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/06/11142/comment-page-1/#comment-391257 Olivier Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:46:56 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/06/11142/#comment-391257 Steven, Fat 32 is all nice until you want to get long filenames or permissions or files bigger than 4GB (DVD isos clock in really quickly to that level), A cheap ass NSLU-2 would liaise your USB drives with your network. For just a little more, you could just buy a used Mac Mini G4 and get some 1-Click AFP or SMB drive sharing.Fat 32 is a safe choice, but not a choice for future needs. Steven,
Fat 32 is all nice until you want to get long filenames or permissions or files bigger than 4GB (DVD isos clock in really quickly to that level),
A cheap ass NSLU-2 would liaise your USB drives with your network.
For just a little more, you could just buy a used Mac Mini G4 and get some 1-Click AFP or SMB drive sharing.Fat 32 is a safe choice, but not a choice for future needs.

]]> By: Steven http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/06/11142/comment-page-1/#comment-391250 Steven Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:39:37 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/06/11142/#comment-391250 Or just install MacFusion also take this with a grain of salt...been using fuse for a long time, but i still don't trust the ntfs driver. right now i'm moving my 1.2TB NAS (5 drives) onto 2 750GB external esata/usb drives to be shared between mac/windows/linux...and as dangerous as fat32 is, I still went with that over ntfs. PS - you can format drives as fat32 > 32GB, just use mac or linux to do it. i'm sure there's windows utilities to do so, too. Or just install MacFusion

also take this with a grain of salt…been using fuse for a long time, but i still don’t trust the ntfs driver. right now i’m moving my 1.2TB NAS (5 drives) onto 2 750GB external esata/usb drives to be shared between mac/windows/linux…and as dangerous as fat32 is, I still went with that over ntfs.

PS – you can format drives as fat32 > 32GB, just use mac or linux to do it. i’m sure there’s windows utilities to do so, too.

]]> By: Olivier http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/06/11142/comment-page-1/#comment-391203 Olivier Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:21:59 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/06/11142/#comment-391203 How about Google spends 5 more minutes and makes this work with a nice GUI? How about Google spends 5 more minutes and makes this work with a nice GUI?

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