MacDrive 7 & NTFS for Mac OS X

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MacDrive 7 & NTFS for Mac OS X

I'm interested in knowing whether MacDrive 7 and NTFS for Mac OS X work as advertised.

My intention is to use Bootcamp to create a partition on my 200GB HD for MS XP Home w/SP2(retail). On the XP partition, I plan on running Dartfish, a motion analysis software product. I would like to store the video files on the Mac OS X partition and use MacDrive 7 to read/write the video files from the XP partition. In addition, I understand that with NTFS for Mac OS X, I could read/write files on the XP partition from the the Mac partition.

Your comments would be appreciated.

Thanks

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2), Bootcamp w/XP Home, SP2(retail)

Posted on Feb 17, 2008 9:24 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 17, 2008 1:34 PM in response to runnerover50

*"I'm interested in knowing whether MacDrive 7 and NTFS for Mac OS X work as advertised"*

I don't think they would write the software if it didn't work as it should.

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The hatter

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Feb 17, 2008 1:57 PM in response to Templeton Peck

For a few files, it seemed okay, for large file copies, no with Paragon. Of course it could have been 10.5.1 itself, but MacFUSE + 3g worked better and is free. I have been intending to retest Paragon now that 10.5.2 has been out. However, I looked for an update from Paragon and it is still 6.0, which struck me as odd, in this amount of time and with changes.

So try MacFuse first, don't use both.

Copying 80GB with Paragon was impossible.

Does anything really work "as advertised"? Hum...

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The hatter

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Feb 18, 2008 6:59 AM in response to runnerover50

One thing to bear in mind that has plagued me, file names that are valid for Mac Extended may not be for Windows. I had Vista file backups just through up errors and even "out of memory" (which Kaspersky and Diskeeper check files, sort of what can happen with AV software running while Time Machine is running).

MacDrive only supports 32-bit Windows. So my copy sits on a shelf.

Tri-Backup 5 (beta, public) seems to work if you need to synchronize files/folders, and are using OS X with MacFUSE or Paragon drivers.

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runnerover50 Author

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Feb 18, 2008 7:58 PM in response to The hatter

Thanks for the input.

After reading info on MacFuse, I think that it's above my current level of expertise. Since I'm only working with the 32bit version of XP, I think going with a supported product like MacDrive is more up my alley.

Thanks again. Cheers
runnerover50

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Answer 5

The hatter

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Feb 19, 2008 3:50 AM in response to runnerover50

MacFUSE + 3g is just install a drive packages (2) and you have access to NTFS from the OS X side.

Odd. My reading was that people felt MacDrive7 was iffy. And of course they work in opposite ways, so there is room for both. But do you want Windows to access your OS X partition? And is it updated for Leopard?

Nothing is as easy as it sounds. There is a learning curve, and the need to research every option.

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