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will mountain lion read/write to an NTFS external hard drive?

hi, I am looking at purchasing a new MacBook Pro and I currently have an external hard drive which I use quite a lot with my Windows pc and it is formatted to NTFS and I wanted to know whether Mountain Lion will be able to read and write to this hard drive.


thanks

OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 28, 2012 7:44 PM

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Jul 28, 2012 7:48 PM in response to tomroon

OS-X does read NTFS. It does not, however, write. Some of the external drive manufacturers have come out with some custom drivers that support writing NTFS. I wouldn't use them as NTFS can be finicky....


Format the drive as FAT32 or create a partitiion on your drive FAT32 to allow read/write between the two os's.

Oct 27, 2012 2:17 AM in response to tomroon

Appologize for hi-jacking the thread somewhat, but I was going to post pretty much the same question.


I currently have a Windows PC. I have an external hard drive formatted in NTFS. On this external hard drive I have pictures, MP3 files, iTunes folder (which contains all the stuff I have on my iPhone, iPad and iTunes libraries).


I'm planning on getting an iMac early next year and was wondering if I would be able to connect the NTFS external hard drive to my iMac, and then basically copy the contents of it to the relevant place on my iMac?


Thanks.

Oct 27, 2012 4:40 AM in response to tal1971

tal1971 wrote:


Appologize for hi-jacking the thread somewhat, but I was going to post pretty much the same question.


I currently have a Windows PC. I have an external hard drive formatted in NTFS. On this external hard drive I have pictures, MP3 files, iTunes folder (which contains all the stuff I have on my iPhone, iPad and iTunes libraries).


I'm planning on getting an iMac early next year and was wondering if I would be able to connect the NTFS external hard drive to my iMac, and then basically copy the contents of it to the relevant place on my iMac?


Thanks.

Yes.

Nov 9, 2012 3:22 AM in response to tomroon

I have read that there is native NTFS r/w support in Mac OS X, which is not enabled by default.

This is the method I have found (I haven't tried yet):

  • Uninstall other NTFS software, like Paragon, Tuxera or NTFS-3G.
  • Run Terminal in Spotlight.
  • Type "diskutil info /Volumes/volname", where volname is the name of the NTFS volume. From the output, copy the Volume UUID value to the clipboard.
  • Type "sudo nano /etc/fstab."
  • Type "UUID=xxx-xxx-xxx none ntfs rw", where xxx-xxx-xxx is the UUID you copied.
  • Save and quit nano by typing Control-X, Y, and then Enter.
  • Restart your system.

Jan 9, 2013 9:34 PM in response to tomroon

Well .. i was facing same problem and i've found a solution that works perfectly for me and i can write on NTFS:


1- Install OSXFUSE == > The most important part is to check the compatibility layer within installation otherwise it wont work

2- Install fuse_wait pkg

3- Install ntfs-3g 2010.10.2 and remove the MacFuse from the customized installation (if you couldn't, just after installation, go to preference and remove the MacFuse)

4- Reboot your macbook, et Voila .. it'll work 🙂


i've got this info from this link

https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/NTFS-3G


Hope that would help 🙂


Cheers, Soha

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