Ive never owned or used a MAc before, but Im interested in buying a MacBook Pro....
I have 2 external HDDs.
My 2TB drive is formatted in NTFS, and is used by anyone in the house for backups etc. Hence I would prefer to keep it as NTFS.
I understand Macs can access NTFS drive data, but cannot write to them. Will I be able to write to the drive through a Windows Boot Camp installation as normal?
My second external HDD is a portable My Passport 500GB, which would be used by the Mac only - so Im assuming HFS+ would be the best format for it?
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Question 1: Yes
Question 2: Yes, While you do have other options, HFS+ is arguably the best file system format for use on a drive destined to be used exclusively by a Mac running OS X. -
you can use 3rd party tools to add full read/write to NTFS from Mac OS X.
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Are these free tools??
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blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
Yes, Search for NTFS-3G
External HDD questions....
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by ifti, Apr 20, 2010.