blingingtp Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Hey guys, I'm running 10.4.3 on my pc. the system recognizes my XP hard drive and mounts it, but it mounts it as read only. Is there any way to mount it with writing capabilities? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10412-ntfs-hd-mounted-as-read-only/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Please search before asking questions... There must be nearly a hundred other posts with this same question. OS X can only see NTFS drives as READ-ONLY. This is a limitation of how OS X sees the filesystem, and I doubt it will change any time soon. You can create (or convert) a partition as FAT32 in XP, and OS X will easily Write and Read to that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10412-ntfs-hd-mounted-as-read-only/#findComment-65009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guilliamo Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 This is normal behavior, and AFAIK there is not a utility that will allow writing to an NTFS partition within OSX. One work-around is to use a FAT32 drive or partition for common storage...since OSX CAN read and write to a FAT32 partition. G Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10412-ntfs-hd-mounted-as-read-only/#findComment-65018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyman Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 There is a linux tool which allows this. I don't know if this could be recompiled to work on Mac OS X. Anyway when I last had a look on the author's homepage it read that it was still in an experimental state and not recommended for regular use due to the risk of data loss. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10412-ntfs-hd-mounted-as-read-only/#findComment-65022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 True, and again, this has been said before on similar posts. There are ways to mount NTFS drives in Linux systems, as read/write, but they don't always work as expected, and can destroy the Filesystem! NTFS is a Microsoft 'secret' of sorts. So no other OS can reliably write to it. Several (like OS X) have managed to reverse engineer enough to read from it just fine, however. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10412-ntfs-hd-mounted-as-read-only/#findComment-65028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZildjianKX Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 I have a somwhat similar question, so I figured no point in making a new thread over it. I installed Win XP to a FAT32 formatted partition so OS X could read it, but the problem is OS X can't mount or read it... anyone else had this problem? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10412-ntfs-hd-mounted-as-read-only/#findComment-66868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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