Hello,

Writing to an NTFS formatted drive doesn't work in Mac OS X, since NTFS is a
windows-only format. You'll have to reformat the drive either in XFat, or
Fat32.
I hope this helps!

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Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 4:50 PM
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Subject: Re: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

Cool! I will have to test asap if writing to ntfs really works from mac osx,
that would be nice indeed. I wont be able to encrypt the disk then but it
does not really have much sensitive data on it anyway.
Greetings, Anouk,
Op 28-8-2011 22:55, Jürgen Fleger schreef:
> Hi,
>
> when it is formatted in ExFAT you are able to read and write in Mac OS X
10.7 and Windows 7.
>
> All the best
> Jürgen
>
> Am 28.08.2011 um 04:25 schrieb erik burggraaf:
>
>> Mac OS can read NTFS, but it can't write to them.  If you want full
access to the drive it needs to be FAT32, although, I've got a 2TB external
formatted FAT32 here so I can share it between mac and windows, and I'm not
very happy with the performance.

>>
>> Best,
>>
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>> On 2011-08-27, at 10:21 PM, anouk radix wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> I have a 1.5tb external drive that has been formatted into ntfs and is
1/4 full with ebooks audiobooks radiodramatv series music etc etc. However
when my mac arrives I am planning to go over to that entirely and only use
windows for training courses. But, can lion read ntfs drives, otherwise I
have a problem.
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Greetings, Anouk,
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