Can't copy anything from Hackintosh hard drive

[TimmyK.]

Hello. I already posted this thread, but now I can't find it anywhere. Do threads get deleted after a certain amount of time or something?

 

Anyhow, my problem is that I can run my SATA hard drive with Hackintosh as an external device on Ubuntu, but when I try to copy anything it says I do not have permission. If I remember from the first thread that was deleted that I need to enable HFS (or was it HFS+, or both?) in Ubuntu. It still doesn't work, and I also seem to recall needing to disable journaling. How would I do this, if I need to?

 

And if possible, can some admin please undelete the original thread or at least tell me what it said?

 

And I don't know if this problem is related, but when I run my Western Digital MyPassport on Hackintosh, I can't copy anything to it. Any way to fix this?

[Sotirios Papakonstantinou]

Hello. I already posted this thread, but now I can't find it anywhere. Do threads get deleted after a certain amount of time or something?

 

Anyhow, my problem is that I can run my SATA hard drive with Hackintosh as an external device on Ubuntu, but when I try to copy anything it says I do not have permission. If I remember from the first thread that was deleted that I need to enable HFS (or was it HFS+, or both?) in Ubuntu. It still doesn't work, and I also seem to recall needing to disable journaling. How would I do this, if I need to?

 

And if possible, can some admin please undelete the original thread or at least tell me what it said?

 

And I don't know if this problem is related, but when I run my Western Digital MyPassport on Hackintosh, I can't copy anything to it. Any way to fix this?

 

I am not familiar with Ubuntu, but you could always have a drive formatted to a common format (eg NTFS or FAT32) where you can read it and write to it from any OS, or find utilities that enable access to other formats (such as MacDrive for Windows). As for your external WD drive this is formatted in NTFS. MacOS can read but cannot write (officially) in NTFS format, only FAT32. There was an old post of how to enable full NTFS access in MacOS 10.6, it involved some trick with the terminal, but I remember telling there is a potential of loosing some data if not being careful, that's why Apple officialy disabled writing to NTFS formatted disks. In my opinion this is bult{censored}. Apple did it to prevent MacOS customers using Microsoft format and prefer Apple's, which is supposely better. This is just one more Apple's stupid move. By creating incompatibilities you make users want to avoid something, nobody likes incompatibilities. A smart move would be to make MacOS as compatibile as possible with mainstream computers (see Windows) no matter if you like it or not. If you want to make them prefer your solution you have to convince them about its merits, not just hindering them using other solutions. That is why Microsoft has too many lawsuits, they tried preventing users using Mozilla etc and to force them use Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player. Apple tries to do the same... They never learn. Since MacOS is based on Unix, one should be able to access MacOS formatted drives from Linux, but Apple doesn't want to, so they made MacOS format different. Create more incompatibilities Apple, but then don't wonder why most prefer Windows.

[Noam AA]

I am not familiar with Ubuntu, but you could always have a drive formatted to a common format (eg NTFS or FAT32) where you can read it and write to it from any OS, or find utilities that enable access to other formats (such as MacDrive for Windows). As for your external WD drive this is formatted in NTFS. MacOS can read but cannot write (officially) in NTFS format, only FAT32. There was an old post of how to enable full NTFS access in MacOS 10.6, it involved some trick with the terminal, but I remember telling there is a potential of loosing some data if not being careful, that's why Apple officialy disabled writing to NTFS formatted disks. In my opinion this is bult{censored}. Apple did it to prevent MacOS customers using Microsoft format and prefer Apple's, which is supposely better. This is just one more Apple's stupid move. By creating incompatibilities you make users want to avoid something, nobody likes incompatibilities. A smart move would be to make MacOS as compatibile as possible with mainstream computers (see Windows) no matter if you like it or not. If you want to make them prefer your solution you have to convince them about its merits, not just hindering them using other solutions. That is why Microsoft has too many lawsuits, they tried preventing users using Mozilla etc and to force them use Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player. Apple tries to do the same... They never learn. Since MacOS is based on Unix, one should be able to access MacOS formatted drives from Linux, but Apple doesn't want to, so they made MacOS format different. Create more incompatibilities Apple, but then don't wonder why most prefer Windows.

 

just to point out, i did tried some ntfs utilities when first started this hackintosh thing, and every time i written to ntfs i was a bit afraid to what will happen. i can say that although nothing serious happened, i had couple of times trying to write to ntfs usb drive, and encounter LOTS of problem on the windows side, while on the mac everything seemed fine,

i think they didn't disable ntfs just like that, it can bring troubles.

 

about the part of making a partition like fat32, i think it's the BEST way, since fat32 is the most compatible with different OS's. this at least what I'm doing, or if i need to copy thing to friends drive, which is NTFS and can't be formatted, i use parallels(virtual win7), and do things in a real ntfs environment, even if it's inside osx, this seem to handle ntfs the best way.