Re: external hd with extended journal encrypted in vmware wasRe: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-09-05 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, What you can do to access a drive formatted as extended journaled encrypted, is to make a hole in vmware, by simply sharing the root of the drive on the mac side. Go to fusion and then into settings, sharing. There, you can designate a folder or any drive for that matter, to become

Re: external hd with extended journal encrypted in vmware wasRe: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-30 Thread anouk radix
Bedankt, thanks for that tip. I thought it might work this way but for some reason did not udnerstand the two way process of sharing folders. Greetings, Anouk, Op 30-8-2011 21:44, Paul Erkens schreef: Hi Anouk, What you can do to access a drive formatted as extended journaled encrypted, is to

Re: external hd with extended journal encrypted in vmware wasRe: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-27 Thread erik burggraaf
No, as far as I know, windows won't read any extended file systems, although I seem to remember playing with some sketchy driver packages that would let you read an ext1 or ext2 linux formatted drive on windows XP. You might try googling but I don't remember having any luck when I was playing

Re: external hd with extended journal encrypted in vmware wasRe: reading an ntfs external hd in lion

2011-08-27 Thread anouk radix
Hi, Yeah I know windows cant doit natively but I thought there might be possible something through vmware and virtual windows because vmware has drivers for a lot of stuff and is itself a mac application, or throug sharing folders but now I seem to remember that that only works from vmware

Re: External HD

2010-08-07 Thread Justin Kauflin
The Mac can read NTFS partitions, but out of the box, it can't write to them. With that said, it'd probably best if you were able to reformat the disc to the Mac format. In my opinion, go head and get another 1TB drive, as they just keep getting cheaper and cheaper, and have that Mac

Re: External HD

2010-08-07 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Was going to suggest the same thing, since storage is getting cheaper and cheaper, even though there are ways that you could get a mac to both read and write to NTFS formatted drives. On Aug 7, 2010, at 2:36 AM, Justin Kauflin wrote: The Mac can read NTFS partitions, but out of the box, it

RE: External HD

2010-08-07 Thread Simon Fogarty
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: External HD Was going to suggest the same thing, since storage is getting cheaper and cheaper, even though there are ways that you could get a mac to both read and write to NTFS formatted drives. On Aug 7, 2010, at 2:36 AM, Justin Kauflin wrote: The Mac can