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sphoenix77
Mar 2, 2010, 01:42 AM
So I have an external HDD formatted in NTFS that I used for all my DVD backups items connected to my Mac (running Mac OS X 10.5.8). In any event, I was re-installing windows on my Laptop (which is a PC) and put the old copy of windows on the external drive. Well, I don't need it anymore and was trying to delete it but it won't delete. I have tried everything short of initializing the drive which I want to avoid so I dont lose all my DVD backups. It's in the trash but it just won't empty. I really do need some advice on this one. Any ideas?


DoFoT9
Mar 2, 2010, 03:06 AM
im afraid that macs dont come with "write" permissions for NTFS disks. you will have to put the ext drive into a windows based computer or installed NTFS-3G ( i think its called) to delete the files.
sphoenix77
Mar 2, 2010, 03:07 AM
im afraid that macs dont come with "write" permissions for NTFS disks. you will have to put the ext drive into a windows based computer or installed NTFS-3G ( i think its called) to delete the files.

What is NTFS-3G? Is that a mac program or something?
DoFoT9
Mar 2, 2010, 03:10 AM
What is NTFS-3G? Is that a mac program or something?

yup its a mac program (http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/) that basically installs drivers that enables write access to NTFS drives :)
sphoenix77
Mar 2, 2010, 03:44 AM
yup its a mac program (http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/) that basically installs drivers that enables write access to NTFS drives :)

Nice program ... but whenever I try to empty the trash it still just crashes the whole computer. :confused:
DoFoT9
Mar 2, 2010, 04:57 AM
Nice program ... but whenever I try to empty the trash it still just crashes the whole computer. :confused:

seriously? argh im sorry about that :( normally it works perfectly! what OS version are you running?
sphoenix77
Mar 2, 2010, 12:15 PM
seriously? argh im sorry about that :( normally it works perfectly! what OS version are you running?

Mac OS X 10.5.8. Just the weirdest thing. I can not delete this old copy of the windows system folder off my computer...
DualShock
Mar 2, 2010, 12:19 PM
You can try to post in the Tuxera (http://www.tuxera.com/) forums, or leave a comment at http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/, about your problem.

Erik Larssen, who is (I believe) the lead (only?) developer for the Mac implementation of NTFS-3G, is usually very good at answering questions regarding NTFS-3G.