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Viewing and using Mac OS X's partition from windows
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sickmacdoc
macrumors 68020
If you purchase and install the PC software package called "MacDrive" then yes you can see and use Mac OS disks.
kastenbrust
macrumors 68030
As the above poster said, MacDrive is the best option for you, by far. Its well worth paying for, i dont know how i coped before i installed it.
Repo
macrumors 6502a
ok i just installed macdrive on vista n my concern is can i do this the other way aronud? so "actually using" windows partition on mac
sickmacdoc
macrumors 68020
Since you are using Vista (whose partition will be NTFS), you can install two pieces of free Mac software called MacFUSE and the NTFS driver for it NTFS-3G to enable your Mac to write to the NTFS partition. Even without that, your Mac can read from the Vista partition, but not write to it.
There is a also a commercial program called Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X.
I tried the Paragon product recently and it worked flawlessly for me so I purchased it when the demo expired. It also comes with a program to read Mac partitions from Windows.
Cheers!
Glen
if you use external hard drive on Windows side and Macfuse on Mac side make sure you eject HD while using windows and before you connect to mac side. Disconnection without ejection will cause error messages and hard drive will not connect to mac.