Hi David,
As it turns out, there are two NTFS read-write solutions for Mac --
one fast and simple solution you must pay for (Paragon), and one slow
and somewhat more complex (requires Terminal commands) freeware
solution.
Details here:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/11/19/ntfs-on-your-mac-two-ways/
And David already mentioned MacDrive, the HFS+ solution for Windows
(which is also a commercial app -- no freeware HFS+ alternative). This
is all a bit frustrating -- at least OS X can *read* NTFS out of the
box, even if it can't write to it. Windows can't even read HFS+
without the $50 MacDrive. It really shouldn't be that difficult for
both OS's to implement these solutions in-house so that Macs could
read-write NTFS and Windows could read-write HFS+ natively.
Anyway, based on your comments and Robert's, I went ahead and re-
installed Windows (for the THIRD time), this time reformatting my
partition for NTFS. (BTW, I am really starting to hate how many
updates I need to download via Windows Update and how many times I
need to restart to get the current version of everything.)
But I must admit that things do seem snappier on the Windows side
compared to FAT32.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 28 Jan 2008, at 5:26 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 27 Jan 2008 at 22:34, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Not possible -- when booted into Windows, it cannot see the HFS+
drives OS X uses. So WinXP can't see my main OS X partition on the
boot drive, nor my 500 GB FireWire HD (also HFS+). I had to reformat
my secondary FireWire HD (in FAT32 format) to make it visible to
Windows.
FAT32 may be wasteful, but AFAIK it's the only solution that allows
me
to read-write all of my drives in OS X, and at least *some* of my
drives in WinXP.
I don't know about Mac, but Linux distributions now provide a
read/write driver for NTFS. I've got it running on a client's home
Ubuntu server that has a USB drive attached to it that is NTFS and is
shared for all the computers on the network. It was in beta at the
time I installed it last summer, but it works just fine. The drive is
a large one used for backups and storing pictures and media, and it
gets fairly heavy use (the backups run every day), so if a problem
were going to occur, I think it would have happened already.
My point is that if it can work in this version of Unix, there might
be ports of it to the Mac OS X version of Unix.
--
David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/
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