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External hard drive issue

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cdrgold

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Mar 25, 2011
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Hello all

I received my 2011, 15", MBP yesterday and i have been playing around with it, trying to get used to it. I have been a windows user for as long as i can remember, so i am enjoying learning how things work differently on a mac.

I just have one small question. I plugged in my external hard drive, which i had been using with my windows based pc, and all of the files appear as 'read only' on my Mac. I have looked around google, and i understand i am having this problem because the drive is formatted as NTFS. I would very much like to be able to use the drive on a mac, as well as a windows computer. What options are available to me? I have looked into FAT32, but not too keen on having the file size restriction
 
cdrgold said:
Hello all

I received my 2011, 15", MBP yesterday and i have been playing around with it, trying to get used to it. I have been a windows user for as long as i can remember, so i am enjoying learning how things work differently on a mac.

I just have one small question. I plugged in my external hard drive, which i had been using with my windows based pc, and all of the files appear as 'read only' on my Mac. I have looked around google, and i understand i am having this problem because the drive is formatted as NTFS. I would very much like to be able to use the drive on a mac, as well as a windows computer. What options are available to me? I have looked into FAT32, but not too keen on having the file size restriction
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Here's just the software for you!

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/24481/ntfs-3g
 
I think i am going to be using the external drive more often on the mac, then i would on a windows pc. Is there any software which lets windows read the mac os extended, format option? Also, i have noticed there is a exFAT option, i have never come across this before, is it still limited by the 4gb file limit?
 
cdrgold said:
I think i am going to be using the external drive more often on the mac, then i would on a windows pc. Is there any software which lets windows read the mac os extended, format option? Also, i have noticed there is a exFAT option, i have never come across this before, is it still limited by the 4gb file limit?
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Yes MacDrive and HFS+ for Windows are good software although not free.
 
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