I'd like to store some MP3s on my Vista partition, but the disk shows up as read only. Is it possible to write on it while in Leopard?
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Is it possible to write on Bootcamp Vista partition from Leopard?
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The only disk formats the Mac OS can write to are HFS+ also known as Mac OS Extended and FAT/FAT32. Because Vista can only be installed to an NTFS format drive or partition, you cannot have read/write access to it from Mac OS. If you had XP, and had the drive formatted FAT, which would also limit it to a size of less than 32 GB, you would then be able to read/write from either operating system.
Searching here would bring up about ten threads about this. You'd find that you need NTFS-3G. Googling would bring that up.