jfn Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Hi all, I've been using XP and OS X on separate partitions with a shared FAT32 partition in between them. This has been working great for two months now. But recently I've started to have problems with corrupted files on the shared partition. I've tried ripping a cd in iTunes under OS X several times. OS X can play the ripped tracks fine, but in XP, the directories and files it created are corrupt (and the folders appear to be filled with several nonsense files/folders). Yesterday an important file I had was corrupted and unreadable (and its size was misreported as tiny), though I luckily had a backup. I opened an Excel document in XP fine just now, but it won't let me save it because it is suddenly corrupt (now I can't open it from the disk again, either). Any idea what is going on? Does this seem like an OS issue, or is my hard drive perhaps failing? Very scary stuff here... time to back up again. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfn Posted February 19, 2006 Author Share Posted February 19, 2006 I should add that I think I figured out the cause of this problem... downloading a >4gb torrent onto a FAT32 volume. I'm pretty sure that was the issue. Luckily I was able to delete all the corrupted files and the problem hasn't resurfaced. But the 4gb file limit on FAT32 partitions wasn't detected and I suspect that data was written past the legal end of the file, or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac OSX Coder Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 So does it work now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billman424 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 you should try out macdrive, it mounst hfs drives under windows and you can read and write to them as if they were ntfs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfn Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 That sounds like a good idea. It would be nice to have everything on HFS+ partitions so i can search them with spotlight and have >4gb files. Do you need to use the Macdrive interface to deal with files on the HFS partitions, or can you start up the program and then use the Windows file interface (and Windows programs) normally, and they'll be able to access the mounted drive as if it were NTFS? Is there a performance penalty? And yes, it does work now... I recovered from another location the files that had been corrupted, ran chkdsk and such, and now it's okay. Phew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billman424 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 it will mount the drive as a drive letter and you can see it in my computer and save to it using anything in windows. there is a free trial available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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