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Paragon For NTFS

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mvksagar45

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I got my MBP recently (13 inch base maodel ) and i got a new 1 TB WD External Hard disk yesterday. As i have a windows desktop, i want my HD to work on both ( and it cant be FAT 32 , as i have many files which are greater than 4GB ). So, i tried NTFS. I installed, ntfs -3g and the mac fuse. But still i couldnt get it working. When i plugin my HD it is saying :

could not mount my HD because

Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/fusefs.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) link error; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
the MacFUSE file system is not available (71)

But i have both Mac Fuse and Ntfs -3g Installed.

And also, then i installed the paragon software for NTFS (Trial version ) and it is great. But the originall version is about 20$( i can afford it, but i am just checking, if any one has got it working for free.)

SO any sugesstions ? Should i gor for paragon full version ? Or anything to get it done free ?

And also i read in other posts that Ntfs-3g ( Free version) is not reliable and slow.

So, did any 1 use paragon ? Is it reliable ? Should i go for it ?
Thanks in advance..
 
I've been using Paragon NTFS for some time and it works perfectly. You'll need the current version if you want to run 64 bit kernel.

I never used the demo, so I'm not sure if you can get around not paying just by using that in some fashion.

John
 
johnnj said:
I've been using Paragon NTFS for some time and it works perfectly. You'll need the current version if you want to run 64 bit kernel.

I never used the demo, so I'm not sure if you can get around not paying just by using that in some fashion.

John
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Same here, paid for Paragon NTFS and haven't had any problems with NTFS partitions.
 
I can't get NTFS-3G to work on my MacBook Pro either (2011 15"). I currently use the trial version of Paragon NTFS for Mac and so far it has been great!
If I don't encounter any problems, I will purchase it when the trial period runs out. It is cheaper than Tuxera NTFS, too. :)
 
Go for Paragon

Go for the Paragon commercial product. I use it since years, it is fantastic. It allows to use NTFS partition at excellent performance just like the native HFS system.
 
Bigmacduck said:
Go for the Paragon commercial product. I use it since years, it is fantastic. It allows to use NTFS partition at excellent performance just like the native HFS system.
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Right. You don't even know it's there... until you write to an NTFS volume and it works.
 
Just an FYI... I bought a Seagate FreeAgent GoFLex external drive at Microcenter a few days ago and it came with Paragon for NTFS. Works like a charm!
 
Dunno anything about Paragon's NTFS driver, but I've used a lot of their products in the past - mostly the disk-cloning, backup, recovery products.

Got tired of the overlapping products, bugs, and constant meatless updates.

I just use System Rescue CD now, which is a free Linux distribution you can boot from a CD or flash stick. I used to have a separate partition with the Paragon DOS-based stuff. Now, at least on my Linux system, I just keep a copy of the System Rescue CD .iso in my root directory, and Grub2 is able to boot it directly. (Even with my root on an LVM volume, yay!) If for some reason that won't boot, I can also go to the CD.

For NTFS, I'd go with FUSE/NTFS3G.
 
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