[pcorlatan]

i am thinking about getting a macbook and want to know if i will be able to access the same documents from both the windows and mac operating systems if i have both of them installed?
thanks

[besson3c]

The same documents from the same disk, or the same documents in general (regardless of how the document is transferred to the OS)?

[MacosNerd]

With some work its doable.

First if you're using bootcamp, this will create two partitions out of your physical drive, one for OSX and one for windows (the repartitioning action is non-destructive to the osx partition).

Out of the box, windows cannot read HFS+ (the disk format from Apple), but there's an application called MacDrive which will give you the ability to access documents on the Macintosh partition

OSX can read and write the FAT32 format but you cannot create a windows partition greater then 32gig and install XP on it. XP requires partitions > 32gig to be NTFS. OSX can read but not write to NTFS. I believe there's some utilities to give write access but I'm unfamiliar with those

If you go the VM route say parallels or VMware's Fusion then you can easily set up share folders and move documents back and forth fairly easily.

Hopes this Helps

[pcorlatan]

Originally Posted by MacosNerd 

With some work its doable.

First if you're using bootcamp, this will create two partitions out of your physical drive, one for OSX and one for windows (the repartitioning action is non-destructive to the osx partition).

Out of the box, windows cannot read HFS+ (the disk format from Apple), but there's an application called MacDrive which will give you the ability to access documents on the Macintosh partition

OSX can read and write the FAT32 format but you cannot create a windows partition greater then 32gig and install XP on it. XP requires partitions > 32gig to be NTFS. OSX can read but not write to NTFS. I believe there's some utilities to give write access but I'm unfamiliar with those

If you go the VM route say parallels or VMware's Fusion then you can easily set up share folders and move documents back and forth fairly easily.

Hopes this Helps

THANK you thats exactly what i needed

[besson3c]

You can read and write to NTFS volumes with MacFUSE coupled with the ntfs-3g extension.

MacFUSE:

macfuse - Google Code

NTFS-3G:

NTFS-3G: Stable Read/Write NTFS Driver


I hope both of these are included in Leopard, as well as SSHfs support.