Second hard drive to be used for both Windows and MAC?

[konaseema]

Hi,

I have installed SSD using optibay by replacing optical drive, which has both IOS and Bootcamp Windows7. It is working great!

I can read/write the stock hard drive only from iOS. Windows can only read, not able to write. I have my profiles setup for iOS in this drive. What should I do to use this larger hard drive for apps on both Windows and iOS?

Thanks

 

[snaky69]

Hi,

I have installed SSD using optibay by replacing optical drive, which has both IOS and Bootcamp Windows7. It is working great!

I can read/write the stock hard drive only from iOS. Windows can only read, not able to write. I have my profiles setup for iOS in this drive. What should I do to use this larger hard drive for apps on both Windows and iOS?

Thanks

iOS is specific to the iPhone/iPad, your computer is running Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

With that said, it has to do with the file system Mac OS X uses, windows cannot write to it natively. There are utilities out there that allow you to write to HFS+, but they are spotty at best.

 

[konaseema]

iOS is specific to the iPhone/iPad, your computer is running Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

With that said, it has to do with the file system Mac OS X uses, windows cannot write to it natively. There are utilities out there that allow you to write to HFS+, but they are spotty at best.

oh.. i meant Mac OS X, what if i format the drive with MS_DOS, can i be able to use it in Mac OSX?

 

[awer25]

Format it as FAT32 or exFAT.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

FAT32 and exFAT and even NTFS are your choices:

FAT32 (File Allocation Table)

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• Maximum file size: 4GB.
• Maximum volume size: 2TB

NTFS (Windows NT File System)

• Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
• Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
  [*]To Read/Write/Format NTFS from Mac OS X: Install NTFS-3G for Mac OS X (free)
  
• Some have reported problems using Tuxera (approx 33USD).
• Native NTFS support can be enabled in Snow Leopard, but is not advisable, due to instability.
• AirPort Extreme (802.11n) and Time Capsule do not support NTFS
• Maximum file size: 16 TB
• Maximum volume size: 256TB

HFS+ (Hierarchical File System, a.k.a. Mac OS Extended)

• Read/Write HFS+ from native Mac OS X
• Required for Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner backups of Mac internal hard drive.
• To Read/Write HFS+ from Windows, Install MacDrive
• To Read HFS+ (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer
• Maximum file size: 8EiB
• Maximum volume size: 8EiB

exFAT (FAT64)

• Supported in Mac OS X only in 10.6.5 or later.
• Not all Windows versions support exFAT. See disadvantages.
• exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table)
• AirPort Extreme (802.11n) and Time Capsule do not support exFAT
• Maximum file size: 16 EiB
• Maximum volume size: 64 ZiB

 

[Bobby Corwen]

Actually Paragon is way more versatile than NTFS-3g and macfuse.

There are drives that wont read properly on NTFS-3g and then after installing paragon they work.

NTFS-3g has been spotty for me.

Paragon all they way in the future at least for me.