Can you transfer files between Windows and OSX on the same machine?

Joined
May 22, 2007
Messages
894
Reaction score
3
Points
18
Your Mac's Specs
15in MBP 2.5GHz Core2Duo | 1.83Ghz Dual G5 PowerMac | 2.0 GHz Dual G5 PowerMac
Would there be any way for me be able to transfer files from the Mac side to the Windows side, and vice versa? It's kind fo a hassle putting them on a flash drive then restarting. Is there anyway to setup bootcamp to allow this?
 

Neo


Joined
Aug 14, 2007
Messages
557
Reaction score
25
Points
28
Your Mac's Specs
white MB 2.16GHz 3GB 320GB 10.6.1
Yes, there are several options depending on your file systems and installed software.

- booted in Mac, with FAT32 file system in Windows:
read from and write to the windows partition from your Mac desktop (Windows HD icon)

-booted in Mac, with NTFS file system in Windows:
read from the windows partition from your Mac desktop,
and write only if you have such tools as Paragon NTFS (search for this)

-booted in Windows
read and write only with such tools as MacDrive (search)

-booted in Mac, with Windows running as a virtual machine in Fusion (or Parallels?)
entire access to both drives, also copy and paste to clipboard across OS platforms

I'm partial to the Fusion solution (search the forum), but in some instances (minimum RAM, running high-memory software; running native from BootCamp is better). You can have both, retaining your bootcamp partition for running windows natively, AND running Windows as a virtual machine, with Fusion (or Parallels?) from your existing bootcamp partition. It's pretty sweet, IMO.
 

Shop Amazon


Shop for your Apple, Mac, iPhone and other computer products on Amazon.
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon and affiliated sites.
Top