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Read/write access to NTFS volumes on Lion?
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Aug 22, 2011, 06:17 AM
 
Which one is the best, cleanest option out there.?

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Aug 22, 2011, 06:25 AM
 
Probably this one, but it's not free. This project has promise, but I don't think it's about done yet.
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Aug 22, 2011, 07:19 AM
 
Originally Posted by P View Post
Probably this one, but it's not free.
Thanks P. I like that one, looks very polished.

BTW, I've tried formatting the external portable hard drive (WD My Passport Essential) as exFAT but its default Allocation Unit Size being 128 KB so more wasted space.


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Aug 22, 2011, 12:02 PM
 
After installing Tuxera NTFS and restarting the Mac Pro, I got a weird issue where the mouse pointer would move annoyingly slow. Then after an additional restart, it was fixed but alas, as soon as I tried to open the BootCamp drive, I got a kernel panic. So, I uninstalled it.

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BTW, it seems there is this trick that lets Windows users read HFS+ formatted hard drives after having run the Bootcamp.msi (or Bootcamp64.msi for Windows 64bit Editions) installer from the Snow Leopard DVD on a PC.


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Aug 22, 2011, 01:31 PM
 
It was not trick on my model - Bootcamp installed a read-only HFS+ driver along with all the other drivers.
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Aug 22, 2011, 01:39 PM
 
MacDrive is good if you want to read/write HFS+ on Windows. The last time I used MacDrive it was really polished, but that was a while back.

Mediafour - MacDrive - Access Mac Disks |

And of course there is exFAT but I have no experience with it.
     
   
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