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Are Apple's HFS+ drivers any good?

AmbientChaos

AmbientChaos

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After a few mishaps, I'm very paranoid about filesystems. If I can use a Mac to perform file operations on HFS volumes (and Windows on NTFS) I would, rather than MacDrive or Paragon/alternatives.

So basically my question is, are Apple's HFS+ drivers that are installed as part of Boot Camp, good? Any problems with data integrity with them?
 
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saturnotaku

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Mar 4, 2013
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AmbientChaos said:
So basically my question is, are Apple's HFS+ drivers that are installed as part of Boot Camp, good? Any problems with data integrity with them?
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Apple's drivers only allow for read access from an HFS formatted partition. You'd still need 3rd-party software for writes.

Is there something preventing you from using exFAT to allow for read and write support from bother operating systems?
 
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IA64

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Nov 8, 2013
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AmbientChaos said:
After a few mishaps, I'm very paranoid about filesystems. If I can use a Mac to perform file operations on HFS volumes (and Windows on NTFS) I would, rather than MacDrive or Paragon/alternatives.

So basically my question is, are Apple's HFS+ drivers that are installed as part of Boot Camp, good? Any problems with data integrity with them?
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I don't find Apple HFS drivers good at all.

I had to install MacDrive to enjoy full support of HFS+ and delete both Apple services from CMD

in CMD : sc delete applemnt | sc delete applehfs ( services deletion )
 
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