As said before, NTFS 3g is free software for the mac. It allows you to
both read and write in NTFS.
Due to technical limitations in the fat 32 format, this is no longer
recommended for hard drives. I will briefly explain why.
1. Fat 32 does not allow a file to be stored that is larger than 4 gigs
in size.
2. fat 32 has no redundancy. So in other words, if one part of a file
gets corrupt, you can pretty much kiss that file goodbye. With NTFS and
mac extended journaled formats, you have a better chance of recovering
said file.
Get NTFS 3g for free with the mac, and NTFS is a good cross platform
format. Works even on a ubuntu machine, as that OS can natively support
NTFS reading and writing.
Note: Mac OS format is good too, but windows can neither read nor write
to it without software like MacDrive. On 5/10/2010 4:04 AM, Simon
Fogarty wrote:
NTFS is the file system or structure in which files are saved / written to
the hard drive.
Mac will not write to NTFS file structures.
Windows will and anything windows after windows nt, use ntfs as it allows
for better security and supposably more stable.
If you wish to use the drive on both a mac and a windows based machines then
I would highly suggest reformatting the drive as a fat 32 file structure.
This is the best format for use in both OS platforms.
Otherwise your going to have to spend money on something that isn't really
needed.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Courtney Curran
Sent: Monday, 10 May 2010 5:21 a.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Why can't I copy anything to my external hard drive it's not
even half full?
I did use it with Windows, so I don't know what NDFS is. Where can this
software be purchased?
On 09/05/2010, at 1:31 in the morning, Dan Eickmeier wrote:
Here's a thought, could this harddrive possibly be formatted in nTFS? If
so, that's probably why. I believe there is software you can get, so
that you'll be able to write to NTFS formatted drives.
On May 8, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Courtney Curran wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if there is some kind of trick for copying something from
the hard drive of my Mack to my external one with mixed content. I tried to
do command-v, but it didn't work. It's not the hard drive I use to do my
time machine backups on. Any help would be appreciated.
Courtney
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