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My Mac won't play nice with my external NTFS hard disk
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Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:00 pm   Post subject: My Mac won't play nice with my external NTFS hard disk Reply with quote Back to top  
Readers of my Little White Box series may recall my abortive attempts to get my Mac Mini to see the data on my external hard disk, which had been formatted with NTFS. OSX's much-vaunted ability to read NTFS partitions proved to be miserably useless.

As it happens, a bright spark at Google has written a Mac port of FUSE, a plugin-based filesystem driver. Installing MacFUSE and the NTFS plugin allowed my Mac Mini to see the contents of the external hard disk.

MacFUSE - http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
NTFS-3G plugin - http://shadowofged.blogspot.com/2007/03/ntfs-3g-for-mac-os-x.html

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Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:28 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Nice.

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Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:52 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
thats nice, now if ntfs wasn't so lame...........

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Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:06 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
If you want to go the other way around, MacDisk will allow reading/writing HFS+ in windows. Good for if your using bootcamp or something.

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Post Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:29 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
soup4you2 wrote:
If you want to go the other way around, MacDisk will allow reading/writing HFS+ in windows. Good for if your using bootcamp or something.


As will MacDrive

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