I'm having trouble writing to ntfs

Well I'm trying to backup some large files (too big to fit on a single layer dvd) onto the ntfs partition I used for bootcamp. First I tried using parallels explorer, but it keeps telling me my windows virtual machine can't be accessed, however parrallels has no problem booting it up. Then I tried ntfs3g and macfuse. I remounted my ntfs partition, however now its telling me I do not have sufficient privileges to write to it. Is there something I am doing wrong?

 

well problem solved I guess. Windows XP > Tiger. MacDrive was rather painless. So much for apple's slogan "it just works." Maybe Microsoft should adopt it .

 

Are you doing this from the Mac OS? I thought Mac could see/read NTFS partitions, but was unable to write to it?

 

macdrive is made by a private company

but it is superior to the mac ntfs write solutions.

that company should really make a "windrive" app for mac that does the same thing.

 

It's not the company. It's the fact that HFS+ is open source and NTFS is not. If NTFS was open source we would have good read/write support.

 

I tried this before, and my final solution is: I do not try to write NTFS. Though I know that some solution from google is available, I do not remember what the exact name is, but I can only read part of your documents, some of my file are missing.
I use my 4G flash drive to transfer file between mac and windows, and I do not do this a lot.
I also have an external 120G hard drive , and I format under the mac so that my mac can read and write on this 120G external hard drive without any problem.
To sum up, I have an 120G Mac-formatted external hard drive+4G sandisk flash drive for my personal use.
Hope that this can help you a little bit.