InsanelyPete Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I saw you can make an NTFS external hard drive writeable. I followed the instructions but was unsuccessful. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=186460 This is the first time I've ever used the Terminal so maybe I did something stupid. 1. Open Terminal 2. Find the ID of the disk -Type "diskutil info /Volumes/volume_name" and copy the Volume UUID (bunch of numbers). 3. Modify to allow writing -Type "sudo nano /etc/fstab". -Type in "UUID=paste_the_uuid_here none ntfs rw" or "LABEL=volume_name none ntfs rw" (if you don't have UUID for the disk). - Save the file (ctrl-x then y) and restart your system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzuka Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I would suggest against this, my ntfs partition was corrupt from this once. Just use NTFS3g. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAppleFreak Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 NTFS-3G works good enough for me. Although it'd be nice to have a drive that isn't called "Untitled" on our Hackintoshes, at least it provides decent read/write speeds and functionality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsanelyPete Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 thx guys thats what i did and it worked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzuka Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 NTFS-3G works good enough for me. Although it'd be nice to have a drive that isn't called "Untitled" on our Hackintoshes, at least it provides decent read/write speeds and functionality. To change this, boot into windows, right click your drive (usually C:) and hit properties. You can change the name there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freaky Chokra Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 I would suggest against this, my ntfs partition was corrupt from this once. Just use NTFS3g. I completely agree with you. And moreover, I'd like to say just one thing: WHY do people who are "Intelligent" enough to install OS X in regular PCs, NOT "smart" enough to go through millions of posts and topics covering this particular issue before suggesting such ideas that have proven fatal a Gazillion times?! Just for the sake of other newbies and the likes, here are links for who ever recently visits THIS "lunkheaded" topic should read before making changes using the FSTAB method: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1361218 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p=1361218 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1361218 Link 1:http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p=1353883 Link 2:http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p=1353145 Link 3:http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=186460 NO OFFENSE or Hard Feelings to the original poster; this point has been covered over and over again at InsanelyMac. That's it..... Just BE SAFE, USE PREVENTIVE Approaches with Snow Leopard. -Regards, Freaky Chokra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia.uk Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Hopefully there will be a 64bit Macfuse kext soon so that those of us booting snow leo in 64 bit can have NTFS write (unless I'm unaware). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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