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    Reading a NTFS Drive

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Rx8, Jun 30, 2006.

  1. Rx8

    Rx8 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guys

    I have an external NTFS drive that i store stuff on that I would like to be able to read with my Macbook. It says in OSX that the drive is not recognized and I can initialize it but I'm afraid that I would loose all of my data. Is there any way that I can read an NTFS drive in OSX or could you suggest a free solution so I could modify the partition to read in both windows and OSX

    BTW I know that this is a Notebook forum but I figured that you guys would know the answer anyways.
     
    Rx8, Jun 30, 2006
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  2. cashmonee

    cashmonee Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    I believe you may be out of luck, but I can't say for sure. I can tell you that you would be better off asking this in a more Mac-specific forum such as Apple's own support forums or somewhere like mac-forums.com, since there are not a whole lot of experienced hardcore Mac users here. Good luck!
     
    cashmonee, Jul 1, 2006
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  3. RadcomTxx

    RadcomTxx Notebook Deity

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    hmm, you should be able to read the drive in OSX. Just not write to it. i am guessing that there must be some other issue preventing it from mounting, but i don't what it could be.
     
    RadcomTxx, Jul 1, 2006
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