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read and write NTFS?

Sep 4, 2006 11:48AM PDT

im dual booting windows on my mac, and i wanna be able to read and write NTFS from my osx OR read and write HFS+ from windows xp, i've tried MacDrive but it doesnt seem to detect my mac partition....

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I believe...
Sep 14, 2006 7:49PM PDT

I believe HFS+ is a closed specification, just like NTFS. Linux has beta write support for NTFS, so it's possible that somebody will port it to OS X once it becomes stable.

Until then, you should probably share data using a Fat32-formatted disk.

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NTFS
Sep 14, 2006 9:55PM PDT

OS X an read NTFS but cannot write it and Windows cannot read or write HFS+ without help.

I have not done much research into this problem but I believe there are a couple of pieces of software that make the "other" partition available to the booted OS.

Check out Parallels, allows XP and OS X to run at the same time, for cross OS drag and drop. Parallels is only emulation, XP does not boot the Mac.

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