OS 10.5 - Macbook won't read NTFS external harddrive

mossyfiber12 · mossyfiber12 #1 (**permalink**)

01-20-2008, 02:21 PM

Hi everyone. I just bought a macbook w/ Leopard and now I am trying to migrate my audio/video files from my seagate external (which is in NTFS format) to my Macbook. However, my mac won't even mount the drive. The only way I can see the external is through disk utility.
In disk utility, my seagate has subcategory which shows a blue folder with a red minus sign at its bottom right hand corner. I don't understand what all this means.
I thought that macs can read NTFS, just can't write? Please help.

harryb2448 · harryb2448 #2 (**permalink**)

01-20-2008, 03:31 PM

Have a look at a program called MacFUSE>

Here is a link to it:-

http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/

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mossyfiber12 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 20, 2008 Posts: 1	01-20-2008, 02:21 PM Hi everyone. I just bought a macbook w/ Leopard and now I am trying to migrate my audio/video files from my seagate external (which is in NTFS format) to my Macbook. However, my mac won't even mount the drive. The only way I can see the external is through disk utility. In disk utility, my seagate has subcategory which shows a blue folder with a red minus sign at its bottom right hand corner. I don't understand what all this means. I thought that macs can read NTFS, just can't write? Please help.
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harryb2448 #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Nov 28, 2007 Location: Nambucca Heads Australia Posts: 14,055 Mac Specs: iMac i5 2.7GHz OS X.8.3	01-20-2008, 03:31 PM Have a look at a program called MacFUSE> Here is a link to it:- http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
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