Tuxera (who develop one of the commercial NTFS drivers for Mac OS X) have a list of free NTFS drivers that are developed from the same NTFS-3G source used by Linux to read NTFS drives. For a while I've been using but as far as I can tell it hasn't been updated since December 2008. I'd love for someone to tell me differently. There are a few third-party products that allow Mac OS X to read NTFS formatted drives but as far as I'm aware the free ones aren't as well maintained as the commercial ones. Mac OS X has had support for reading NTFS formatted disk for a few versions, but still doesn't have write support. The default GUID partitioning scheme won't be recognised by 32-bit Windows XP and earlier Windows operating systems and Mac OS X versions earlier than 10.4. That may work if i tried it.FAT32 (called MS-DOS (FAT) by Disk Utility a filesystem originally released in 1977 and updated a few times since, lastly in 1996) really is the only cross platform filesystem that is going to work fully out of the box with Windows and Mac OS X.īe careful though, if you are using Disk Utility to format the drive, you should make sure to choose the Master Boot Record partitioning scheme (hit the "Options." button below the "Partition Layout" control on the Partition pane). All 3 were unchecked, some i'm thinkingg. The other two options are: Compress Files & Folders and Disable Last Access Time. I haven't tried plugging into A windows *Since* i selected that option. OH and I forgot to add, when I plugged in my LaCie I went to System Preferences>NTFS for Mac OS X, I selected my hard drive and checked Access Permissions. I'm thinking of returning the LaCie and maybe giving Seagate a try? I'v seen around in the forums its a trusted brand for hard drives. I plugged the hard drive in there today and still. Lol just trying to show the precautions I made. plugged into XP today (an IT school might I add, which means obviously, the drivers are uptodate - we use XP home - Dell).
SO THEN, I downloaded "Paragon" formated the hard drive to "Windows NT File System" (NTFS if im correct? lol). There is no icon in Explorer for me to access the harddrive.Īlso, I formated the hard drive and changed it to "FAT32" and when I plugged it into XP & Vista, same thing, the hard drive is seen but still no icon in explorer. Its recognized by Windows, the remove device icon comes up on taskbar. The default file system in Windows is NTFS, while Mac OS users HFS. Want to use external hard drive under both Windows PC and Mac In this case, you should consider the hurdle that these operating systems support different filesystems. It shows as Device is working properly, drivers are up-to-date. Method 3: Format external hard drive for Mac and PC.
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