I used boot camp to dual-boot xp and osx on my macbook. Everything is fine with it except for the fact that I cannot view my OS X files when I boot up with XP. The hard drive for OS X is not visible in XP. Is their a program I can install so I am able to access my OS X files while in XP. Also, when I'm in OS X, i can only read XP files and not write to them, are there any programs you recommend that can solve this issue as well? thanks.
Running OS X and XP on a macbook
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Out of the box, Windows XP does not support HFS or HFS+ filesystems which is why you can't see them when in XP. There is a product called MacDrive that will allow you to view the Mac OS X partition from within Windows.
As for the read-only issue when within Mac OS X, that has to do with NTFS itself. Microsoft has not released information regarding NTFS that would allow others to write to it safely, so this had to be reverse-engineered by open source programmers. There are now two pieces of software called FUSE and NTFS-3G that allow operating systems like Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and any other non-MS operating systems to write to NTFS filesystems. On the Mac side, there's MacFUSE and NTFS-3G for OS X is also available.
As for the read-only issue when within Mac OS X, that has to do with NTFS itself. Microsoft has not released information regarding NTFS that would allow others to write to it safely, so this had to be reverse-engineered by open source programmers. There are now two pieces of software called FUSE and NTFS-3G that allow operating systems like Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and any other non-MS operating systems to write to NTFS filesystems. On the Mac side, there's MacFUSE and NTFS-3G for OS X is also available.
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