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Accessing windows partition from OS X?
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If you formatted your Windows XP partition as NTFS then OS X cannot write to it.
The only file system that they can both write to is FAT32, which isn't recommended above a certain size...frankly, I wouldn't use it at all.
If you have an external drive, I would recommend splitting the partition and formatting a segment as FAT32 as a staging area between Windows XP and OS X.
The only file system that they can both write to is FAT32, which isn't recommended above a certain size...frankly, I wouldn't use it at all.
If you have an external drive, I would recommend splitting the partition and formatting a segment as FAT32 as a staging area between Windows XP and OS X.
Indeed, but it would have been more unfortunate if you used at FAT32 for XP. From what I've heard it makes the operating system more unstable.
You can download a free trial edition of Macdrive:
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/
I use it in XP to get files from my mac partition and copy them to the xp partition. Very easy to use.
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/
I use it in XP to get files from my mac partition and copy them to the xp partition. Very easy to use.