Thanks Esther for the information, I heard of 3rd party software that allows the writing of a NTFS partition on a Mac, just wasn't sure of the accessibility of them. I think I'll give the trial a shot, Thanks again! Angelo ----- Original Message ----- From: Esther To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 8:38 PM Subject: Re: Exstirnal NTFS drive and VMWare
Hello Angelo, I'll let someone else address your question in more detail, but the basic answer is that you won't be able to write to NTFS partitions without additional software assistance. I've read some posts on the macvisionaries list, and somewhat more recently on the mac-access list, that people have successfully used Paragon software to write to NTFS volumes that they need to access from both Windows and the Mac. This isn't something that I do myself, so I'll just mention that there is currently a sale on a Paragon Mini-Bundle at the MacUpdate Promo site (mupromo.com): • Paragon Mini-Bundle! 10.0.1 (four apps for $29.95 that normally run for $100) https://deals.macupdate.com/deal/14044/paragon-mini-bundle The sale seems to be running through the next 5 days. The way the mupromo site works, you need to register and create a login account. That requires a one-time negotiation of a CAPTCHA. Afterwards, you can log into your account for a record of your past purchases, information on the serial numbers, and links to the download versions. There's usually a download trial so you can try things out and decide whether you want to purchase the app deal. Maybe somebody who has used the Paragon software can comment on this. HTH. Cheers, Esther On 2 Apr 2013, at 10:07, Angelo wrote: Hello all, just bought a 4 tb drive, it's a Seagate backup plus. I partition it into 2 types a Mac journal and a NtFS. now can't write to the NTFS partition either with the Mac side, or windows7, using VMWare. I already downloaded about a tb of data on it using a windows machine, so I really don't want to move all that data off and back on it again. I thought VMware would be able to write to it? is there any solutions to let the Mac and or VMware work with it?Thanks much for any help! - __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 8187 (20130403) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
