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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1506662" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Reckon you haven't tried writing to that drive from OS X yet?</p><p></p><p>You can read from, but not write to a NTFS formatted drive without 3rd party software.</p><p></p><p>Depends on how you are going to use the drive as to whether it needs to be OS X Extended Journaled (HFS+ for short) or NTFS.</p><p></p><p>Planning on using Time Machine, SuperDuper! or CarbonCopyCloner for backups, then it will need to be formatted as HFS+.</p><p></p><p>Plan on just copying files to the drive for backup and you want to be able to move the drive back and forth between Windows and your Mac - then spend $20 and get <a href="http://www.paragon-software.com/products/home/for_mac.html" target="_blank">Paragon's NTFS for Mac</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1506662, member: 24160"] Reckon you haven't tried writing to that drive from OS X yet? You can read from, but not write to a NTFS formatted drive without 3rd party software. Depends on how you are going to use the drive as to whether it needs to be OS X Extended Journaled (HFS+ for short) or NTFS. Planning on using Time Machine, SuperDuper! or CarbonCopyCloner for backups, then it will need to be formatted as HFS+. Plan on just copying files to the drive for backup and you want to be able to move the drive back and forth between Windows and your Mac - then spend $20 and get [URL="http://www.paragon-software.com/products/home/for_mac.html"]Paragon's NTFS for Mac[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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