Moving files from an NTFS-drive to a HFS+ one in OS X

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Tazoil

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The situation is this:
I have a PM G4 with a 10 GB drive and one 45 GB.
The 10 GB is NTFS formatted and the 45 GB is HFS+.

Is there any way to copy files from the NTFS drive to the HFS+ drive?
Maybe some nifty utility that I've overlooked.

There got to be some way. Question is if the software is already written or if I would have to write it myself. Any ideas?

/Taz
 
Well, there may be a clever way of doing by using the home version of Sharity. There are, I believe, a few BSD Tools (available by popping in on the FreeBSD website) that may help in this quest if the Sharity idea doesn't pan out.

(actually, [I'm back editing] the release version of FreeBSD recently has an "mount_ntfs" built into the kernel... maybe the Darwin folks can add, or have added, that to the filesystem part of the kernel?)

Most likely, you may need to resurrect an old PC to accomplish this task... or maybe pulling up Virtual PC 5.0 and adding as a disk may work.. however, I;m not sure of that type of success.
 
i think that freebsd has a different way of doing file systems. for example, in freebsd (and linux) a driver has to be built into the kernel. they are monolithic kernels, OSX has a microkernel. so to port freebsd ntfs support or linux support would require rewriting.

but i m sure there must be some third party software you can buy that will let you mount ntfs drives. i think that osx already has fat support
 
i really think that the best option is to put that NTFS drive back in the win2k box and transfer all the files over a LAN. this capability is completely supported by OSX. reading NTFS disks is not. i m sorry, i wish there were a better option. perhaps if you ifnd a better solution you will post it here
 
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