On Oct 11, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Nestamicky wrote:

>
> I thought I'd run this here quick, as I'm sure someone here would have
> wanted to do same.
>
> I have a rather large HD that's formatted in NTFS and has tons of data
> on it that I'd like installed as a secondary drive in my Sawtooth.
> Question is: if I pop it in, as secondary, would it need to be
> reinitialized with the possibility of loosing my data?

OS X 10.3 and later read NTFS natively; pop it in and you can read the  
drive, no write.

Installing NTFS-3G will give you read/write access; I'm pretty sure  
that 10.6 alos does read/write out of the box.


-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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