Ntfs-3g

[patrickng89]

Hi everyone,

I am a total noob at Mac as i just bought a new mbp 15 after years with windows. i was reading the forums and was trying to figure out how to configure this ntfs-3g issue so that i can read those ntfs files. can someone provide me with step by step instructions as to how to do this?

Thanks in advance!

 

[GGJstudios]

Formatting in HFS (Mac OS Extended) or FAT32 or NTFS-3G can be done with Mac's Disk Utility.

FAT32

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• No individual file larger than 4GB.

NTFS

• Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
• Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write NTFS from Leopard: Install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.
• To Read/Write NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
• (Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard)

HFS

• Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive
• To Read HFS (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer

The NTFS-3G step-by-step installation instructions are included in the User Guide that comes with the app.

 

[spinnerlys]

NTFS is short for New Technology File System and is like the name suggests, a file system, used by Windows. Mac OS X is capable to read NTFS formatted volumes without a problem or any third-party software.

NTFS-3G drivers are simple. You download them from here, open the DMG, install it by running the Install NTFS-3G.mpkg file, restart the Mac and are now able to WRITE to NTFS formatted volumes.

Also take a real good look at GGJstudios post. And MRoogle. And http://guides.macrumors.com/Drives_and_Filesystems