Help! Transferring Mac HD data to PC HD

Hi

I have two USB hard drives. One is Mac Osx Journaled. One is NFTS PC.

I badly need to give my father (on PC) some files.

PC does not read the mac drive (not even using HFSE exporer) and while the good old Mac reads both - I cannot copy onto the NFTS formatted drive.

Can anyone help!?! There must be away...

Oh and I don't mind if solution is using either mac or Pc!

Thanks

Back up whatever is one of the drive and dual format the HDD as Mac OSX Journaled and FAT32?

That's what I had to do to work with Windows. >_>"

Thank you!

However - newbie quesiton here! - how do I do that? On Disk Utility it just gives me an MS DOS (FAT) option or Mac OS Journaled. I don't have a "dual" option.

Perhaps there is a downloadable app that offers to do this?

Thanks in advance

Or you could get write access to the NTFS drive ny installing MacFuse on the mac.

macfuse - The Easiest and Fastest Way to Create File Systems for Mac OS X - Google Project Hosting

Thanks. It's very suprising to learn that there isn't an easier way to do this!!!

Hi Louishen. I have downloaded MacFuse and installed it. Thanks for the heads up. One problem though: where does it go??? After installation there is no trace of it. No app in the application folder or the utility folder etc. Don't like apps just dissapearing after install. One of the reasons I stopped using PC's! Any ideas? Thanks

How big is the data? If it is less than 2 GB, set up a free Dropbox account and share the data that way. Small client goes on each machine and the data is shared live between them. I keep my MBP, Work Laptop (XP) and other home laptop (Win7) as well as my iPad all sync'd up with no issues.
Dropbox - Simplify your life

No worrying about drive formats and R/W issues.

Thanks Deckyon. Been a longtime Dropbox user! Unfortunatly it's video footage. So it's a lot more than 2gb!

Google a product called NTFS-3G.
It's simple and simply works. I have 10 years worth of NTFS external drives full of photos - I couldn't switch without a clean solution. I am reading/writing to my existing NTFS drives with absolutely no problems, and using them on my Windows machines seamlessly.

Thanks thewalt! I don't know how (it didn't install an actual app!) but whatever it is it worked! Lol!

To anyone else with this problem inrecommend it!

@ newby - it installs what Windows would call a service (don't know what Apple call them yet). Basically a patch to the operating system. It's just there, no need to run anything once it is installed.

Glad it worked - I think it's $35 to buy the software, but well worth it if you need to share disks with PCs.

It's greatly appreciated. Thanks Walt.

Error in NTFS -3G

Hi,
I have installed NTFS-3g on my Macbook Pro. But, I get an error when I'm mounting the hard disk. I require everyone's help in sorting the issue out.
I tried two other applications - Paragaon NTFS and Tuxera ntfs. Both of them work perfectly well, but there's a trial period of 10/15 days , after which I'll have to buy the software.


Regards,
Anil

newby said:

Thanks thewalt! I don't know how (it didn't install an actual app!) but whatever it is it worked! Lol!

To anyone else with this problem inrecommend it!

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Anil - you are correct. The free version of NTFS-3G no longer works for read/write; you now have to buy the paid version to get the read/write capability.

Since then I have found another free piece of software that works well and does read/write. Find it at: NTFS Mounter - it works a bit differently by sitting in the menu bar and when you have a disk mounted, you tell click on NTFSMounter to re-mount it in read/write mode. No big deal, if you require free.

-theWalt

Take note that the free NTFS Mounter only works with Snow Leopard. It does not work with Leopard or any earlier versions of OS X.

This is true. NTFS-3G is also very fast and stable, power-friendly, etc. And it works transparently - there is no difference between Mac and NTFS disks using NTFS-3G.

In my opinion well worth the few dollars they ask for it. NTFSMounter's only advantage is that it is free. But that costs you the need to launch the program and interact with it each time you need to mount a disk.

I guess it's a matter of how well NTFS 3G has worked for you. There's a reason why the free version is no longer developed. It was unstable and occasionally caused file corruption. The pay version supposedly fixes that.

Paragon NTFS is my choice because it not only gives you R\W capability for NTFS, it also allows formatting and repair. Only $19.95.

By the way, you can place NTFS Mounter in your login or startup folder so that it will be available for use as soon as you boot into OS X.

I've been using Paragon's NTFS for Mac. Once you install it, it sits in your System Preferences and you don't have to do anything. Plug in your NTFS external and you will have read/write ability.

PARAGON Software Group - NTFS for Mac, communication channel between Mac OS X and Windows

Thanks a lot theWalt and chscag. The NTFS Mounter works perfectly fine.. You guys are awesome. I apologize for the long delay in posting this.
My other questions is : Is there any other freeware similar to NTFS-Mounter which can mount HFS+ partitioned drive to Windows?

I have recently upgraded to OS X Lion. The sad part is ntfs-mounter doesn't work anymore.
Can anyone help me with any other software or any workaround to write to NTFS volumes in Mac OS X Lion?

Thanks.