OPTiK Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 I have OSx86 and Windows XP installed on different drives. How can I write to the Windows drive from OSX? I can't change permissions on the windows dive to Read and Write. Do any of you guy know a way around this? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15027-access-to-other-drives-in-os-x/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayland Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 I have OSx86 and Windows XP installed on different drives. How can I write to the Windows drive from OSX? I can't change permissions on the windows dive to Read and Write. Do any of you guy know a way around this? Thanks! I don't think you can. It has to do with the NTFS file system restrictions from an HFS drive. At least that's what I was told a while back... I may be wrong. I mean I have an external formatted NTFS that I think I can write to if I plug it in USB wise... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15027-access-to-other-drives-in-os-x/#findComment-96349 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proteo Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 Are you sure Kc? I've tried to do the same with no sucess. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15027-access-to-other-drives-in-os-x/#findComment-96355 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 its a no go for writing to ntfs filesystems from osx. the only way is to have your xp disk formatted as fat32 or just a nice partition so you can read/write from both xp or osx. the only downside is the 1gig filesize limit on fat32, bad for people who use dvd disk images alot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15027-access-to-other-drives-in-os-x/#findComment-96360 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogabean Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 Just a small correction: "The maximum file size on a FAT32 formatted partition is 4 GB or 4,294,967,296 bytes minus 2 bytes ..." Personally I have 3 partitions on the laptop. NTFS,FAT32,HFS+ or other way of putting it; windows,shared,os x. Keep in mind if you are needing access to a file in windows that is stored in mac, you can always install MacDrive which will give you read/write to the OS X drive/partition as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15027-access-to-other-drives-in-os-x/#findComment-96481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPTiK Posted April 15, 2006 Author Share Posted April 15, 2006 Well that just sucks. Oh well, thanks guys for your help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15027-access-to-other-drives-in-os-x/#findComment-96496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
suyaojun Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 Use partition magic to convert your XP partition (NTFS) to FAT32. OS X can read&write FAT32 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15027-access-to-other-drives-in-os-x/#findComment-96564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigboss Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 alternatively you can use darwine and run a windows program (i.e. word).. that enables you to write to NTFS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15027-access-to-other-drives-in-os-x/#findComment-96578 Share on other sites More sharing options...
want_a_mac Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 OSX can also write to a NTFS drive. But only when it is on a network and has Sharing enabled folders in it.... Cheers.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15027-access-to-other-drives-in-os-x/#findComment-96788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogabean Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 alternatively you can use darwine and run a windows program (i.e. word).. that enables you to write to NTFS. i wouldnt think that would work. OS X still dictates whether or not you can write to the drive while inside OS X. OS X doesn't know how to write to that drive it mounted. Your statement seems illogical. and if by some weird chance it did work.. i would never recommend it as it would most likely damage the filesystem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15027-access-to-other-drives-in-os-x/#findComment-96799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayland Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 i wouldnt think that would work. OS X still dictates whether or not you can write to the drive while inside OS X. OS X doesn't know how to write to that drive it mounted. Your statement seems illogical. and if by some weird chance it did work.. i would never recommend it as it would most likely damage the filesystem. It's a risky thing to say the least, those allocation tables can be death if they are played with improperly! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15027-access-to-other-drives-in-os-x/#findComment-98614 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurora Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 I don't think you can. It has to do with the NTFS file system restrictions from an HFS drive. At least that's what I was told a while back... I may be wrong. I mean I have an external formatted NTFS that I think I can write to if I plug it in USB wise... No, you can't. It doesn't matter if the drive is plugged in via USB, IDE, SATA, or whatever. By default Tiger will only read NTFS, not write. Just a small correction: "The maximum file size on a FAT32 formatted partition is 4 GB or 4,294,967,296 bytes minus 2 bytes ..." Personally I have 3 partitions on the laptop. NTFS,FAT32,HFS+ or other way of putting it; windows,shared,os x. Keep in mind if you are needing access to a file in windows that is stored in mac, you can always install MacDrive which will give you read/write to the OS X drive/partition as well. This is probably the easiest and most common solution. I like MacDrive, but the only hitch is that it refuses to recognize my HFS-formatted USB drive (don't tell me to use FAT32, it's 80 Gb). Use partition magic to convert your XP partition (NTFS) to FAT32. OS X can read&write FAT32 Erm, we've had this discussion before. Yes, filesize limit for FAT32 is ~4 Gb, but the default partition size is 32 Gb. So if you wanted to split your Windows drive up into two or three seperate FAT32 partitions, which would be somewhat painful to deal with, this would work. alternatively you can use darwine and run a windows program (i.e. word).. that enables you to write to NTFS. Wouldn't work. Darwine only provides an API layer to allow rudimentary support for Windows programs, but only inside Tiger. Theoretically you could use it to load the ntfs.sys off of a Windows install to possibly allow write support to ntfs. Here is a working read/write module for linux that uses this same idea successfully, but I don't know how difficult it would be to port. OSX can also write to a NTFS drive.But only when it is on a network and has Sharing enabled folders in it.... Cheers.. Over a network, yes, this works with every other filesystem available, (ext3, ufs, xfs, etc.) since the filesystem processing is done by the remote operating system. i wouldnt think that would work. OS X still dictates whether or not you can write to the drive while inside OS X. OS X doesn't know how to write to that drive it mounted. Your statement seems illogical. and if by some weird chance it did work.. i would never recommend it as it would most likely damage the filesystem. Agreed. My personal solution is to use a large scratch drive, but not using HFS+, NTFS, or FAT32. Rather, I'd use the Linux EXT2/EXT3 filesystem that has great read/write support on Windows. I think support for it in Tiger is good also, I've seen stuff floating around coder's websites that purport to allow write access to EXT2/3, but I haven't tried any of them yet (not brave enough for a real dual-boot solution). Good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15027-access-to-other-drives-in-os-x/#findComment-98651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
declan Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Offer a proper network you can write to a NTFS drive, as it doesn't matter what the file system is. Sorry missed last post, old news. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15027-access-to-other-drives-in-os-x/#findComment-98669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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