Mac OS NTFS Mac

H2O

H2O

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Anyways a friend got a macpro and the problem is that he uses a Seagate Freeagent GO 500GB HDD( NTFS format). So, it shows up as a Read Onlly Drive.

He tried to getting Writing privileges by installing Macfuse bbut it did not work can someone please help me out.
 
@gaurish: Format your drive as FAT32. Its works "seemlessly" R u kidding here??

AFAIK he has data on that 500gb ntfs drive. He will loose it and he wont be having another same capacity backup drive.

@H2O: Attach his disk to windows based system and convert the ntfs disk to fat32 type using partition magic. No data loss and no worries hence further.
 
nitant said:
He will have to boot in 32Bit Mode. Macfuse doesnt support full 64Bit
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Yeah, but NTFS runs fine on Snow Leopard on my Aluminum MacBook, via MacFUSE.

AFAIK Snow Leopard at the core level still boots in 32-bit by default (at least in mine it does) - to support 32-kexts for hardware that still don't have 64-bit drivers, etc. Almost all default apps run in 64-bit individually, though.

The only glitch is that if you click MacFUSE under System Preferences, it will ask you to restart System Preferences, this time in 32-bit mode, to load the 32-bit prefpane of MacFUSE.

The available download of MacFUSE is some older version which apparently has some issues with SL. So you are recommended to reach the option under it's System Preferences page to update it to latest (which was 2.1.5 beta last time I did). This update is only available from already installed MacFUSE's prefpane.
 
ronit said:
@gaurish: Format your drive as FAT32. Its works "seemlessly" R u kidding here??

AFAIK he has data on that 500gb ntfs drive. He will loose it and he wont be having another same capacity backup drive.

@H2O: Attach his disk to windows based system and convert the ntfs disk to fat32 type using partition magic. No data loss and no worries hence further.
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The only problem with FAT32 is you can store single files having a size more than 4GB...There go all the HD Movies.
 
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