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External HD problems
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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So i setup my external HD(160Gb) with four partitions. I did the work on a PC and thats where I used it mostly. Recently however I have started using it with my MacBook more and more. THe problem is that I can't write on two of the partitions. Is there anyway to change the permissions without reformatting the drive?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Did you format those two partitions as NTFS? If so, you'll need to download macfuse and 3g-ntfs to write to them on a Mac; OS X doesn't natively support writing to NTFS.
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They are indeed Nt file system while two are Fat 32. By using these softwares I will be able to use the partitions without disrupting the data on the drive?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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It shouldn't harm any of your existing data, but it may not run that smoothly (as in new data copied over from OS X), either, since it's not official Apple software.
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Posting Junkie
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Well, the drivers are reverse-engineered, so I'd back up the data on those NTFS partitions before using them, as if the developers turn out to have made a mistake somewhere reversing the format, they could mess up the partitions.
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I'm not really having much luck getting this stuff to work anyways.
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