Formatting an NTFS Hard Drive to Mac Format

[assyrianking44]

i installed a windows xp sp3 and i ended up formating it on windows 7 but when i put in in mac and try to boot snow leopard it wont eve show anything (on macbook)

[kothariv]

the guy in the red shirt is so annoying! shutup you stupid idiot and let us listen to the bald man who is giving us useful information!

[sweetsweatyfeet]

I have a 500 gig powered USB drive formatted in NTFS that I want to use with OS 10 Tiger. The Mac wont even mount it. It doesn't show up in Disk utility. But I CN read it on a Windows Vista PC however there is no FAT32 option. What gives?--How do I get my mac to mount it or read it so I can reformat it?

[pixlejunkie]

The simple solution is to eject the volume, then your formatting options in disc utility are no longer grayed out. These are 'experts' in the video?

[shine609video]

Actually, guys, with OS 10.4 or later and you can read/write to NTFS external drives just fine; download the open source freebie software (based on Macfuse) which treats the disk as a Network Volume : )

[Copecwby20]

@shine609video What is the name of the software?

[crazyhorse9991]

In theory yes, but good luck getting hardware drivers...and i wouldn't try snow leopard, they've closed most holes that allow running on a non-Mac.

[SkaZiiKx]

i just got a Macbook pro, my first mac so im a noob, i have all my old files on an external Hd which i used on my pc formatted to ntfs. now when i plug it into my mac nothing shows up, not even in disc utilities, please help me i need them files!

[drewthegnome]

i have the same problem. if someone tells u how to fix it please let me know.

[acstechtips]

@serialkissersband yes just install ideneb

[AsktheTechies]

Not without some hacking some of which is probably illegal.

[Jackalakadingdong]

@AsktheTechies I have a MacOSX Lion with a Bootcamp partition that loads Windows XP SP3 and using that I can read and format Mac OS Extended Hard Drives. But whenever I try reading the Mac partition it gives me the Blue Screen o' Death and I need to restart. I did however then make a backup of my HD on the Mac Partition using the special startup disk from when my Mac crashed and couldn't reboot and I used windows and that backup to recover 99% of my files. So I can use mac partitions on windows.

[smitsmit]

Theres a fix that u download from the piratebay and it will let u read and write when its in ntfs

[Darren6541]

On my XP Computer i don't see my hard drive or a letter when i go to my computer but my hard drive is plugged up and running but when i go 2 my Mac a computer i see my hard drive how do u switch it over?

[besim2020]

hey! i have the same problem!

if u found a solution plz let me know!.. thnx..

[mario54671]

So, I tried doing that...but my 500GB Lacie Harddrive wouldn't let me erase...it's saying it "could not be unmounted" or something..

[correip]

i got an URGENT PROBLEM

long story short, my "Macintosh HD" i snow NTFS formatted,

i am booting up from my external hard drive which is mac formatted

i tried going thru disk utility but when i click on either of the two hierarchies the erase options are all grayed out

im running leopard and i need my HD back

plz help

[JonDaMan4Prez]

I have a question, I have some music files on my pc and I want to move it to my new mac, would i need to reformat the ntfs external hard drive to mac format to copy files into my mac?

Also if i run bootcamp, will it read/write on ntfs?

[KHasa69]

Yes , you can transfer the music files from the PC to Mac, using the external HD, NTFS formated. You just can't put anything from the mac into ntfs formated HD.

[thestever]

So if I have my PC backed up on a NTFS external, when i buy a mac if i connect that external to it, it can transfer my files over to the mac? And afterwards, can I reformat that drive to mac and be able to read and write to it?

[AsktheTechies]

"THESTEVER":

You got it right. A Mac will be able to read that NTFS drive and so you can navigate and copy those files onto the Mac. Then you can erase the drive with Mac's Disk Utility program and format it for HFS+ Mac Extended.

[wys0123]

once you go mac you never go back.

It is very true but some cases, people are using both systems whether by choice or on transitional to Mac.

How would you tackle these situations? is there way to use both system with one drive?

[macboy123456]

or did u just do control + Scroll Up

[macboy123456]

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