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Another newbie with NTFS drive situation

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KTPrince

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May 26, 2010
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After a lifetime of owning PC's I finally purchased a MacBook Pro running OS X. I installed Parallels Desktop 5, Windows XP, and several Windows apps to have dual functionality.

Now I need to write to my NTFS ext. hard drive where I backup everything. It has 800gb of space left, so it would be a shame to get a new one just b/c I have a Mac now.

So...I first installed MacFuse and then NTFS-3G. Now when I reboot, the ext. HD won't mount at all. What have I done wrong?

Please and thank you.
 
You can format the external to HFS+ (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) with Disk Utility to get the best compatibility with OS X
 
Okay, I seem to have done it all correctly. NTFS3-G told me to re-unmount the drive using Windows safely remove hardware, but I can't do that because neither Windows nor Mac can see the drive.

I'm wondering if this is a Parallels issue. Should I have installed MacFuse and NTSF3-G before Parallels, not after?

OR, should I uninstall the separate MacFuse since the NTFS3-G comes with it?
 
KTPrince said:
Okay, I seem to have done it all correctly. NTFS3-G told me to re-unmount the drive using Windows safely remove hardware, but I can't do that because neither Windows nor Mac can see the drive.

I'm wondering if this is a Parallels issue. Should I have installed MacFuse and NTSF3-G before Parallels, not after?

OR, should I uninstall the separate MacFuse since the NTFS3-G comes with it?
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I'd try uninstalling, then use the link that I posted to re-install.
 
KTPrince said:
Won't that erase everything on the drive and then make the drive unable to have Windows files written to it?
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Yes, but you can move the files temporarily to other drive. As you now have a Mac and I assume your main OS is OS X, it would be better to use HFS+, even just because of Time Machine. You can access HFS+ in Windows with e.g. HFSExplorer
 
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