Formats

[Hogly]

I just installed boot camp with xp sp3. I can't find my WD Mybook on windows (its formatted as mac ofc) I was wondering if from a mac I could format a partion to NTFS. It wont let me do it on disk utility, anyone got any ideas?

[RealaT]

OSX cannot write to NTFS partitions, it can only read from them.

If you want to format the drive as NTFS you will need to do it in Windows.

[MacDawg]

Yes, Disk Utility will allow you to format as NTFS from the drop down menu

http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/NTFS.png


NTFS-3G (http://www.ntfs-3g.org/) will allow OS X to read/write to NTFS (Windows) and it is free

MacDrive (http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/) will allow Windows to read/write HFS+ (Mac OS X), but it is not free

You can also check out the various file systems here: MR Guide: File Systems (http://guides.macrumors.com/File_systems)


Woof, Woof - Dawg http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/pawprint.gif

[RealaT]

Yes, Disk Utility will allow you to format as NTFS from the drop down menu

http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/NTFS.png


NTFS-3G (http://www.ntfs-3g.org/) will allow OS X to read/write to NTFS (Windows) and it is free

MacDrive (http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/) will allow Windows to read/write HFS+ (Mac OS X), but it is not free

You can also check out the various file systems here: MR Guide: File Systems (http://guides.macrumors.com/File_systems)


Woof, Woof - Dawg http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/pawprint.gif

2 years on and I'm still learning new things :D

Didn't realise that NTFS-3G allowed formatting a drive as NTFS

[Hogly]

Yes, Disk Utility will allow you to format as NTFS from the drop down menu

http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/NTFS.png


NTFS-3G (http://www.ntfs-3g.org/) will allow OS X to read/write to NTFS (Windows) and it is free

MacDrive (http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/) will allow Windows to read/write HFS+ (Mac OS X), but it is not free

You can also check out the various file systems here: MR Guide: File Systems (http://guides.macrumors.com/File_systems)


Woof, Woof - Dawg http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/pawprint.gif

Thanks Dawg :)