hello. google macfuse and ntfs3g. both free apps and both will let you read and rite to ntfs. On Oct 3, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Robert Hooper wrote:
> Hello allJ > > I recently acquired an external hard drive I wish to use for > backing up my old laptop. Furthermore, as I will be using Windows > occasionally as my transition into the Mac world progresses, I would like to > use it as a central location for storing things that I may use on both > computers (music, class notes, essays, books, pipe rench manuals, the > Geologic Podcast, etc.). Formatting this hard drive in the HFS+ (journaled) > format doesn’t work at all for Windows. I know that Mac’s can interact with > hard drives formatted to NTFS in a read-only state, yet can’t write to them. > I further understand that there is some program which changes this. What > would be the monetary expenditure (if any) required for the procurement of > such a program—and, upon acquiring the program, are there any special > instructions that accompany it (NTFS-3g) or is the use of that program > straight forward and transparent to the operating system? Any help would be > greedily received and the person giving it indiscriminately unacknowledged > and cruely dismissed… > Just joking, it’s just that the phrase “greatly appreciated” is overused and > is beginning to sound tired and bland. Although any help would be received > with humble gratitude (too cheesy)? > I would appreciate any advice on this matter and apologize if this topic has > already been covered; due to the enormous amount of messages this list > generates, I tend to move them all to another folder and searching them can > be tiresome. > Sincerely, > Robert Hooper > hooper...@buckeyemail.osu.edu > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email > tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
