Backing up MBP HD to a NTFS formatted drive

[greenythebeast]

Is it possible to back up my MBP HD to a NTFS formatted drive? I looked at Carbon Copy and it said I needed to reformat to backup the HD. Am I doing something wrong? Please help!

 

[Eddyisgreat]

There is a really long, complicated process involve with making OS X NTFS compatible, which is NTFS-3G ( i think)


Your best bet is to reformat with FAT, which you will be able to use cross platform.

Alternatively, this product claims to allow you to write to NTFS:

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

 

[r.j.s]

OS X cannot write to NTFS out of the box, and the plugins mentioned ^^^ can be a bit unstable from time to time. Best way to ensure data integrity is to reformat as either FAT32 (MSDOS) or HFS+.