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<blockquote data-quote="rsmithgi" data-source="post: 786830" data-attributes="member: 47178"><p>You have three options:</p><p></p><p>1. Setup your Mac to be able to write to NTFS disks. There is a commercial solution (Paragon NTFS) and a free solution (NTFS-3G). I have not tried either one. This solution will not require you to do anything to the external drive. </p><p></p><p>2. Reformat the external drive to FAT32. This will require that you copy all of the data off of the drive and put it back after you complete the formatting. Also, this suffers from the file size limitation of 4GB. </p><p></p><p>3. Convert the partition from NTFS to FAT32 using a program like Partition Magic. I have not personally tried this approach either. </p><p></p><p>Personally (if you do not have the space to copy files to a new drive while reformatting), I would borrow or buy another drive to backup the data. I would not muck around with the format of a drive that contains valuable data.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rsmithgi, post: 786830, member: 47178"] You have three options: 1. Setup your Mac to be able to write to NTFS disks. There is a commercial solution (Paragon NTFS) and a free solution (NTFS-3G). I have not tried either one. This solution will not require you to do anything to the external drive. 2. Reformat the external drive to FAT32. This will require that you copy all of the data off of the drive and put it back after you complete the formatting. Also, this suffers from the file size limitation of 4GB. 3. Convert the partition from NTFS to FAT32 using a program like Partition Magic. I have not personally tried this approach either. Personally (if you do not have the space to copy files to a new drive while reformatting), I would borrow or buy another drive to backup the data. I would not muck around with the format of a drive that contains valuable data. [/QUOTE]
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