MAC OS X Tricks Tips For Beginners

You have used Boot Camp for an installation of Windows Operating System but the partitioned hard disk is not writable. Or you have bought a new external Hard disk for storage or you already have an external hard disk before and now switched to Mac, you would be facing a critical problem. The problem is you can read data from it but cannot add anything on it ,which is not the case when the same HDD is connected to a Windows based computer.

The problem lies in the different formats , your Mac OS operates on a HFS+ format while your External Hard Disk has NTFS format. So it only allows you to read it but cannot manipulate any data on it. There are two solution softwares which you can use to make your NTFS format Hard disk Read/Write.
1) The first one is a software called Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X.By using this software you have complete read/write format access to NTFS volumes partitions. Easily transfer data between Windows and Mac® computers using external or USB drives with
NTFS partitions.
Download Paragon NTFS for Mac® OS X (10 days trial)
more info:http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

But it is not a free software you have to buy it. But if you want a free method then there is a second process below.

2)Download MacFUSE-Core-10.5-1.5.1.dmg , and install the dmg image file.
Then you have to install the NTFS-3G driver which is an open source application.
So, download NTFS-3G 1.2531 and install it .The machine will now restart and then you can read/write NTFS volumes.These are Open Source softwares so they are available for free.
more info:
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/

written by Avipar\\

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