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WaldoJ
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 Posted: Fri, 22nd Sep 2006 23:03 Post subject: Ext HDD and Mac |
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I bought an ext hard drive. For special projects. I will mainly use it for macs, but I have done already some work with it on my pc. It’s set up in NTSF thingie and partitioned. I was just wondering do I really have to reformat it to the mac os file system or can I use it as is it, in ntsf, and still mange files on it when I connect it to a mac?
Thing I’ll be using it for is final cut and I don’t really know, right now, if it’s possible.
Can anyone tell me if it’s possible?
Like using ntsf ext disk as a scratch disk on mac where all your projects are saved onto?
Do I really have to format it for the mac file system?
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Jenni
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Sep 2006 01:02 Post subject: |
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Please note: Special Projects really means hard core pornography. 
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werdercanuck
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Sep 2006 01:15 Post subject: |
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this is what i found:
| Quote: | Hello,
Check out this article: http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_fs.html
To summarize, OS X Default filesystem is HFS+ and you will want to use that for your main partitions. There are pieces of software out there that insist on being installed onto an HFS+ partition.
OS X will read NTFS. Won't write to it. Why? Most likely because of the security model... a Mac would need to be aware of the NT filesystem and permissions structure in order to effecitvely read and write to the disk. That is not easy to do, as how would a Mac predict both NT Workstation and Domain permissions when it is not "active"?
What I would do is get your mac, and then setup a small network to offload the data onto a different disk drive, or to CD-ROM / DVD Rom. Then again, if this is your only copy of the data, you do realize you are begging for hard disk failure and the collapse of it all.
To answer:
Mac OS X will read your NTFS Data.
Apple has in the past given reductions / free updates to those who purchase in within a certain timeframe of the next OS release. I would call a Mac store and ask them personally what the latest policy is. |
also, maybe this will help:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsosx/
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WaldoJ
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Sep 2006 02:34 Post subject: |
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Hmmm. Can I format one partition of the drive for it to work under a mac or do i have to format the entire drive?
Thing is I don't own a mac. I can only get an access to a mac. So I cannot install anything 
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