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    NTFS Disk format to use on Mac

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by toronto_na, Aug 9, 2011.

  1. toronto_na

    toronto_na Notebook Guru

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    I have spare NTFS SATA disk from my earlier laptop. I want to replace my current drive of MBP with spare NTFS SATA disk and then install the Lion OS. Can someone tell how I should go by doing this. I have an external enclosure that I can use to connect the spare disk to either Windows PC or MBP so I can correctly format it then install it on MBP.
     
    toronto_na, Aug 9, 2011
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  2. Karamazovmm

    Karamazovmm Overthinking? Always!

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    connect the HDD via the caddy, go to disk utility (its on application>utilities), select the disk and format it using Mac OS extend, journaled

    Just insert the drive and install lion from the USB recovery partition that you should have
     
    Karamazovmm, Aug 9, 2011
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  3. directeuphorium

    directeuphorium Notebook Evangelist

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    yep... Disk Utility.

    OSX can read NTSF, but can't write to it.

    also you can use a live linux CD to format it using Gparted. (disk utility is picky and doesn't play on the same level as Gparted)
     
    directeuphorium, Aug 10, 2011
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