NTFS formatted drive in read only on mac
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A simple fact Microsoft will not license NTFS to anyone because they think it will make Windows more secure. I think it is because they are just stubborn and think if they license NTFS out other software vendors (Mac, Linux) will get a leg up on them.
However small third party developers have cracked the NTFS code like Paragon's NTFS for Mac, Tuxera's NTFS for Mac & the free Google's MacFuse. You would have to download one of these to write to NTFS.
Now IMHO it should have been formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and MacDrive put on the Windows box. I use this and it is very stable on my Windows 7 partition. I even back the Windows partition backed up to a Mac OS Extended external disk and write to it with no problem. Again IMHO Windows should bend to OS X, not the other way around.
However small third party developers have cracked the NTFS code like Paragon's NTFS for Mac, Tuxera's NTFS for Mac & the free Google's MacFuse. You would have to download one of these to write to NTFS.
Now IMHO it should have been formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and MacDrive put on the Windows box. I use this and it is very stable on my Windows 7 partition. I even back the Windows partition backed up to a Mac OS Extended external disk and write to it with no problem. Again IMHO Windows should bend to OS X, not the other way around.
With MacFuse or any other NTFS-enabler thing for Mac, there will still remain one huge issue if you keep it formatted as NTFS: you will be able to read and write, but not execute.
So you can read or write a file, but you can't delete anything as that would need the execute.
So you can read or write a file, but you can't delete anything as that would need the execute.
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Well if you are a Mac OS X 10.6 user then read the hint 10.6: Free native read of HFS+ disks in Windows. It might be a semi-free alternative to see HFS+ drives from your Windows partition.