Hey all! I’ve got a Mac question as I’m looking to buy a refurb intel Mac air 2020. With a Mac, running windows 10 through bootcamp, am I able to use network discovery and view a hard drive contents and read/write? Hard drive format is NTFS.
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MacBook 2020 running windows ( Network discovery? )
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Is there any other reason for installing Windows than to write to NTFS? If not then there are solutions to enable write support to NTFS in macOS.
As was already stated for network drives. You should simply be able to connect to them. Although sometimes it may be a pain to setup initially. As Macs often don't see network shares when navigating shared devices (not that network discovery is perfect in Windows). Needing to be connected manually. Then you can save the shortcut or automount to make life easier in the future.
As was already stated for network drives. You should simply be able to connect to them. Although sometimes it may be a pain to setup initially. As Macs often don't see network shares when navigating shared devices (not that network discovery is perfect in Windows). Needing to be connected manually. Then you can save the shortcut or automount to make life easier in the future.
In all honesty I have a WD live hub with a 16tb drive attached. I’d just like to access that and make changes when needed. I’ve used the network section on my windows pc and that’s what I’m use to using. If I could by pass using windows all together that would be even easier.