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I have an external NTFS formatted hard drive that has some raw video in it.
I want to take it to the Mac lab and use final cut pro to edit some footage.
My question is can the Mac correctly read and write to a NTFS formatted hard drive?
The Macs in the lab are eqipped with the latest home Mac OS (sorry I don't follow Mac software so I don't know what version it exactly is)
Here someone asked the same question with varying answers below.
I dont know if they could write to it but i know they could read. I have mac installed on a HFS formatted and my NTFS also shows up but it cant write. Maybe it could be it doesn't on mine.
I dual boot XP and OSX, and my Mac can read the NTFS drive, but not write to it.
Yea same here
Ah thanks.
Too bad though. My second thought was to look into partitioning it into both a fat32 and ntfs but that makes no sense for what i'm doing.
I need ntfs to handle my large (16+ gb) files. Too bad.. No Final Cut Pro for me.
You could transfer the files to the HFS+ HDD from the NTFS one. It will take some time but you could do it overnight.
You can use send files from HFS+ format drives in macintosh to NTFS format drives in Windows using a network share.
What gets me is, if this method works...how come you can't copy directly from HFS+ to NTFS in the first place!? WTF???
:crazy:
Hopefuly there might be some special software that makes macintosh believe your external drive is a shared folder on a network. Check into OSX Emulation software.
I also have a big external drive for video footage and I currently use a 5gb Fat32 partition on it to copy from from the mac to my pc.
Havn't had to transfer anything over 4gb yet, but I can still slice the projects I guess. Doesn't sound pretty to me though.
At least Mac can read NTFS. Windows can't even read HFS+
Bill Gates made sure of that. Cheap bastard that Gates.Quote:
Originally Posted by twisterX