(Just so you know I Hate macs)
macs are very good for videos and pictures(beter than windows) I dont undertsand why they use FAT32? and not NTFS? My uncle owns a mac and we deal with 6Gig+(you can not transfer single files larger than 4 gig) videos when we go diving etc.... this creates a problem when storing videos (internals are only so big) and its not possible to copy over to a 750Gig hard drive and work between the 2 operating systems.
So what Im asking is there a way to copy files onto a harddrive that is NTFS (My 750gig external) in mac, He is running Tiger, I believe the latest version 10.x something
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Macs don't use FAT32 by default...they use HFS+.
Anyways, one way is to buy MacDrive for Windows, which allows Windows to read and write to HFS+ drives (Mac OS X formatted drives). Another method is to get MacFUSE, which is free and allows OS X to be able to write to NTFS, however, this slows down the transfer speed a lot, so its not that recommended.
And just a note, OS X Tiger is Mac OS 10.4.
Oh, and not too sure, but I believe NTFS is licensed to Microsoft. NTFS stands for NT File System, and that's from Windows NT. -
I apreciate the fast response, I think the MacFuse would be more logical becuase all of our Computers are windows based except 1(then again it should be a short download and install for Macdrive), so the 750 External hops around, It may slow down rates but I can wait.
Did not know where to start my research for this thank you. -
No problem. Happy to help out.
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http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
http://www.ntfs-3g.com/
An alternate method would be to share the drive as a network drive between Windows and OS X. Some helpful information here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=125172 -
I agree with Taelrak, networking the drive is going to be the fastest, and least painful way to use a drive between different OS's.
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anyone seen this
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=351476
NTFS + Mac write to?
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Runeknight95, Oct 12, 2007.