Re: windows drive

2009-03-08 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 06/03/2009, at 6:35 PM, mince and pud wrote: I'll be sure to mention that before friend threatens to come round again bearing disks full of goodies. (and he was muttering the whole time about why on earth people have macs - when he had just got his pc back after 3 weeks at the

Re: windows drive

2009-03-06 Thread Robert Howells
On 06/03/2009, at 2:43 PM, mince and pud wrote: Many thanks Bob and Greg I only wanted to read and copy, not write, but although Tiger should have done this ok, it didn't. Even when I installed MacFuse and NTFS-3G the finder couldn't see the drive, and at first disk utility knew it was

Re: windows drive

2009-03-06 Thread mince and pud
I'll be sure to mention that before friend threatens to come round again bearing disks full of goodies. (and he was muttering the whole time about why on earth people have macs - when he had just got his pc back after 3 weeks at the repairers having the viruses taken out and all the

windows drive

2009-03-05 Thread mince and pud
Hi all Does anyone know if there's a way of reading a friend's USB hard drive - formatted windows NT filesystem - on either my G4 mirror doors 10.3 or my G4 powerbook 10.4? many thanks Alastair www.goatpix.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: windows drive

2009-03-05 Thread Greg Bell
The ability to read NTFS is available in Tiger 10.4 too, and MacFuse + NTFS-3G will enable you to write to the drive as well, though I'm not certain if MacFuse or NTFS-3G are PPC compatible. On 06/03/2009, at 7:37 AM, Robert Howells wrote: On 06/03/2009, at 12:29 AM, mince and pud wrote:

Re: windows drive

2009-03-05 Thread Robert Howells
On 06/03/2009, at 8:32 AM, Greg Bell wrote: The ability to read NTFS is available in Tiger 10.4 too, and MacFuse + NTFS-3G will enable you to write to the drive as well, though I'm not certain if MacFuse or NTFS-3G are PPC compatible. I am using them on a 1.6 Ghz PPC G5 quite OK

Re: windows drive

2009-03-05 Thread mince and pud
Many thanks Bob and Greg I only wanted to read and copy, not write, but although Tiger should have done this ok, it didn't. Even when I installed MacFuse and NTFS-3G the finder couldn't see the drive, and at first disk utility knew it was there but could neither mount nor eject it, then