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 latterly it would
hang while looking for drives...
Please don't stress about this on my account, as the friend has gone
home with his drive
thanks again
Alastair
www.goatpix.com
On 5 Mar 2009, at 23:52, Robert Howells wrote:
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 ... except beware the
CAVEAT shown below
Bob
On 06/03/2009, at 7:37 AM, Robert Howells wrote:
On 06/03/2009, at 12:29 AM, mince and pud wrote:
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
If you google for " ntfs on Mac " you will get plenty of
information .
I do not know about 10.3 or 10.4
but on 10.5 there is incorporated into the OSX a driver that lets
you read NTFS
but you cannot write to it .
There are some 3rd party apps that will allow you to do that !
I am using " NTFS3G " which requires also " MacFuse " .
CAVEAT : You MUST shutdown and finish with the drive correctly
before disconnecting
OR
The drive will require a Windows utility repair to make it
readable again.
Transfer of data is not fast at only 10 to 12 gigs an hour .
See this link :
<http://blog.adamnash.com/2007/05/25/how-to-mount-ntfs-drives-on-
mac-os-x-with-readwrite-access/>
Bob
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