Airport Extreme and NTFS

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Airport Extreme and NTFS

Does anyone know if Apple intends to update the Airport Extreme "N" router to support NTFS?
I wish to back up the Vista side of my MacBook Pro over the network to an external G-Tech 1 TB HD attached to, and shared by my iMac. The G-Tech is formatted 1/2 FAT 32, and 1/2 NTFS. I can access the FAT 32 side, but not the NTFS side over the network. I cannot make a disk image of the MacBook Pro because FAT 32 does not support file sizes greater than 4 GB, and the NTFS side is not accessible over the network. (I hate pc stuff)

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Jan 24, 2009 11:46 AM

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VA2020

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Jan 24, 2009 2:10 PM in response to Av8tor_wa

Just format it HFS+ (Mac OS Extended - Journaled). The PC will recognize it as a network share and will read/write to it.

If you need to read the drive with it connected directly to your PC, just pick up MacDrive for XP to read/write to the HFS+ drive.

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Jan 24, 2009 3:42 PM in response to Av8tor_wa

Thank you VA2020.
Problem is two fold. I would like to make a back-up image of my Vista NTFS drive from both my iMac and my MacBook Pro and store them on the external HD for disaster recovery. Secondly, I would like to make incremential back-ups of my business files located on the NTFS side of these machines. (Time Machine does the back-ups on the Leopard side of each machine).

Do you know of a software package that creates a image of a NTFS drive that could be stored (and recovered) from a drive formated as HFS+

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VA2020

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Jan 24, 2009 4:07 PM in response to Av8tor_wa

Norton Ghost v.14 can backup an NTFS drive to a network drive. Why don't you just create 2 partitions? Just use the GUID partition scheme and format one NTFS (PC only) and the other HFS+ (for TM backups). BTW, TM will NOT backup an NTFS drive/Windows partition.

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