I installed MacFuse from Google Code site, restarted my system, but I still cant write to my External NTFS drive.
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How can I write to NTFS external drive with MacFuse?
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There is a plugin somewhere online that allows that.
I think it's by a company called Paragon. Google that and see what you can find.
I think it's by a company called Paragon. Google that and see what you can find.
Assuming you have leopard
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
I went to these two sites to get my mac to read/write an external NTFS drive. However, my mac crashed after I had forgotten to eject the external before shutting down/restarting. I decided to reformat the drive as FAT 32.
I imagine there's probably some other bugs, but this is the best freeware solution out there (possibly the only solution?).
Hope this helps,
Esther
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
I went to these two sites to get my mac to read/write an external NTFS drive. However, my mac crashed after I had forgotten to eject the external before shutting down/restarting. I decided to reformat the drive as FAT 32.
I imagine there's probably some other bugs, but this is the best freeware solution out there (possibly the only solution?).
Hope this helps,
Esther
You can reformat external drives to FAT32 under OS X? If you're drive is >30Gb I'm mega confused because that's supposedly impossible
I've got two external 250Gb drives I'm currently using for Windows which I want to use for OS X in the future, so obviously I can't reformat the entire thing to FAT32, and using HFS+ would mean that a Windows Installation under Bootcamp wouldn't even see it, so I guess NTFS-3G provides quite a good go-between solution?
The size limit is a windows invention not a limitation of the file structure. A FAT32 drive can be any size as long as its not formatted by windows XP or vista. In fact most external drives come ore formatted as FAT32, or HFS+ I have not came accross any that are preformatted as NTFS yet
How do you format as FAT32 in OSX? In Disk Utility, I only see MS-DOS (FAT) as the only Windows option.\
Missed your comment since I replied at the same time as you. Thanks
Sorry my reply took so long . . .
Even though it simply calls it FAT, when I look under Get Info, it's FAT 32. Someone with more technical knowledge can explain why Apple doesn't offer both FAT 16 and 32.
FYI, The external disk that I have formatted is 100GB.
Esther