totentanz Posted May 31, 2009 Share Posted May 31, 2009 So I'm planning to dual boot Win7 and OSX off a 64gb SSD partitioned into two 32gb partitions. I have 5 other hard drives in the system. My question is: what happens to the other drives? Do I need to commit each drive to either Win7 or OSX? i.e. 3 hard drives to Win7 and the other 2 to OSX? Can OSX read Win7 drives? vice versa? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168588-dual-boot-osx-win7-what-happens-to-other-hdds/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammycow Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 Do I need to commit each drive to either Win7 or OSX? i.e. 3 hard drives to Win7 and the other 2 to OSX? Can OSX read Win7 drives? vice versa? Natively OSX will only read NTFS drives. FAT32 is the only file system that both can read and write, but it's not desirable for big drives. So all your drives will show up on your desktop and you'll be able to read/copy files but not save/write. Paragon NTFS for Mac -- will allow Mac to read and write NTFS. Latest version 7 seems stable (I tried it many years ago and it was very unstable) - it did kernel panic my system while I told it to delete a few hundred gigabytes of old files though, so YMMV. Perfectly fine reading/copying data so far though. Apparently Snow Leopard will include HFS+ drivers for it's boot camps - so it would seem Windows will see better soon too. There already exists MacDrive and TransMac - the first, again, never experienced any stability. TransMac, nice little program, but is self contained and not a system driver - you use it to move/copy/format files from one place to another. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168588-dual-boot-osx-win7-what-happens-to-other-hdds/#findComment-1169245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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