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MAC can't READ ntfs formatted external drive

Last answer on Oct 1, 2009 11:07:35 am BST joshs, on Dec 21, 2008 7:19:26 pm GMT 
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Hello,

I worked for hours on researching reading and writing from an NTFS drive to a mac FROM MY NEW HARDDRIVE

Now when I plug it in to the mac, I can;t even read it.... There's just a bunch of DLL , EXE, and IST files.

I;d appreciate any help. Thanks

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Gopanuj, on Jan 2, 2009 2:58:01 am GMT

Hii
Mac does not supports NTFS file system . it supports HFS file system. so it will support it . try to search for a software which can be use as a converter .

   
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dolarfred, on Feb 20, 2009 5:08:33 pm GMT
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OSX can read NTFS but not write.
with tiger and leopard (i've not try with older system)

you can install

MacFUSE
THEN
NTFS-3G

available at http://www.ntfs-3g.org/

then you can read and write NTFS


dolarfred

   
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 Iyad, on Oct 1, 2009 11:07:35 am BST
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You can download NTFS for MAC driver (last version is 7.0) and your MAC will be able read/write NTFS files.

   
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