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XServe - Moving Firewire External HDs from Win Server
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josephmyates
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Feb 22, 2006, 06:28 PM
 
We are installing a new XServe with 10.4.5 Server and want to move over several external Firewire 800 hard drives that are currently attached to a Windows 2000 server. Is this possible without having to reformat as Mac OS Extended HFS?
The Xserve mounts them fine - but as Read only - cannot wite to them.

Thanks in advance for any help on this.
     
mduell
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Feb 22, 2006, 06:52 PM
 
The external drives are formatted as NTFS. OS X does not support writing to NTFS volumes.

You'll have to reformat them as FAT32 or HFS+ for write support on OS X.
     
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Feb 22, 2006, 07:08 PM
 
Thanks for the quick reply Mark - I was suspecting that was the case
     
   
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