Access Windows USB Drive with Mac OSX

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Hey all,

Here is my problem, I can't write on any of my external USB drives. They are marked as read only under Mac OSX (they are windows NTFS formatted drives) and I apparently can't change that in Mac OSX (argh). Does anybody know how to change this to Read & Write ?

Cheers,

Brett

 

[006]

You have to be logged into your Mac OS X account as an administrator. If you are the only account on the OS, then you are the administrator. Then you can do Ctrl+Click or RightClick on the drive, and go to "Get Info", you should be able to change the permission to Read & Write from there, if you are in the admin account. Other than that...I think you'll have to wait for Mr. Murphy, Mr. Sneap, or Kazrog to get on and see this, because they all helped me with a similar situation a while back.

~006

 

[Kazrog]

NTFS is the problem. Mac OS X doesn't support write-access to NTFS partitions. See this article for more info:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050521110452194&lsrc=osxh

 

[SPLASTiK]

I'm pretty sure NTFS is read-only on a Mac... Heh, looks as if I was beat.

If you want to read/write on both OS you'll need FAT32

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Oh... ok... well thanks a lot guys... damn... I'd better back up everything before converting from NTFS to FAT32 I guess because with my luck, this is gonna end up in cries

 

[kaomao]

converting you will loose for sure something.
I never trust windows for these kind of things.

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Me neither, so I'll wait for my bad luck period to pass by before daring the devil.

 

[Amadeus79]

Hi Brett

I had some trouble the other way around. I had a PC and a OSX-formatted drive. I installed a driver called "Macdrive" on the PC and it worked like a charm. I don`t know if it can help you, but it`s worth checking out.

Edit: I googled a little bit and found this:

http://www.macfixitforums.com/showf...68255&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=31&fpart=1