I connected my ext hdd that ive been using with my windows PC to my MB but it cannot be edited i.e add or delete files in the ext hdd. How do i make it writeable ?

Do i need to reformat the hdd or something ?

And one more thing, sometimes my ext hdd is busy when i connect it to my MB forever. I need to restart the MB for it to appear in my MB. But if i take it out and connect it to my PC there's no problem at all. Any idea why ?

thanx

Mac can't write to NTFS format, it can only share with Windows under FAT32 format, do a search, it had been asked many times. Good luck.

really ?
means u have to format the drive with FAT32 ?
that sucks...


This post has been edited by MoNnY: Sep 7 2007, 02:33 AM

yup...i had similar problems like you but once i formatted it to FAT32, no problem at all. Oh yeah one more thing there is certain size limitation to a FAT32 partition, so it is better you look it up a bit more.

You can use the third party MacDrive application in your PC. It lets Windows read/write to a Mac formatted drive. Not free though, but it works really well.

FAT32 can't write more than 4GB in file size. If I recall correctly...

but then u need to install it on every PC ur gonna use your ext hdd with. Which sucks



This post has been edited by munky: Sep 7 2007, 11:57 AM

try looking for ntfs3g for osx and install it.... it will allow your mac to write to your ntfs drives...

Yep. Most FS can support more than 4Gb per file, but only that FAT/FAT32 don't

Open diskutil and check your ex HDD's disk indentifier. eg: disk1s0 by click the info button.

Open terminal, and type "cd ../../.." to go up till the root path, (type without the quote of cos).

Then,
(1)Make one temp folder, called Data. Or you can change whatever name you like.
(2)Using the ntfs-3g commandline. You need to change disk1s0 to you ex-hdd disk indentifier. "volname" commandline you can change whatever name you want, "Data" is just an example.


You should be able to read/write NTFS. Hmm.. You require to type those commandline in terminal everytime you reboot your system. If you don't like, you might want to google a little bit. There's got auto-mount script. I think it was for older version. Good luck

OMG this is so complicated lol

i hope someone will create a software to edit ntfs format just like that

Who among you works with files bigger than 4GB's all the time? Just format it in FAT32 and there you go, problem solved. NTFS is proprietary to Microsoft so if MS doesn't want to release it, you're out of luck. My 500GB external is formatted in FAT32 and I don't have any issues...

Im thinking of formatting it, but then i dont have a backup hdd to back my files up. I'll settle with a new ext hdd later la

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Added on September 7, 2007, 7:59 pminstalled macfuse with ntfs 3g already. Works fine so far

Gonna close this thread

This post has been edited by munky: Sep 7 2007, 07:59 PM