I think that's not strictly true. *nix-based systems have experimental
support for creating NTFS file systems with the mkfnts command that is
part of the linux-ntfs project:
http://man.linux-ntfs.org/mkntfs.8.html
There's a blog about the Mac port of this project:
http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/
For the moment, however, it's probably easier to make a FAT32 file
system and then convert it to NTFS from Windows.
These things aren't simple though, to say the least. Why does the OP
wish to create a NTFS system in the first place? Maybe there's an easier
way to accomplish the end goal.
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
You can't. FAT32 is the best you can do, though you will have some
restrictions. the 4GB file size limit for one. A lack of
interoperability in Windows with other file systems is one of the major
downfalls of Windows, IMO. Mac can read NTFS, but as yet can't format
it. I believe, though i'm not sure, this is due to proprietary issues.
Microsoft owns the NTFS format. Linux will not format NTFS either.
On 6 Nov 2007, at 15:02, william lomas wrote:
hi
in mac os x how can i format a hard drive please as ntfs for windows
to read it?
