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10.3: Mount and use NTFS disks natively
Authored by: assault on Nov 20, '03 04:07:56PM

I just can't seem to use NTFS at all. I have a Lacie 500GB external firewire drive formatted to NTFS (plugged into a PC for use on the network) and when I plug it in my PowerBook with OSX Panther, it just crashes the whole system. I have no idea why it does it. Does anyone have a solution? I am going abroad soon and wanted to take the drive with me to plug into my PB but if it doesn't work...



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10.3: Mount and use NTFS disks natively
Authored by: 96tears on Dec 04, '03 01:04:48PM

I'm having the same problem: I have an external USB HD for my Win 2K computer. I assume its NTFS since that's how my Win2K is setup. It was "plug&play" and just started working right away without me having to do anything.

When connecting it to my friend's OSX ibook G4 it detects the device but wants to initialize it.

Is there OSX software we need to run to access my drive without erasing it?

Thanks!



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10.3: Mount and use NTFS disks natively
Authored by: grawender on Dec 09, '03 10:28:43AM

I'm having the same problem. I have 80g ntfs hd, plugging in using USB 2.0 to a G4 iBook causes the system to crash. Any thoughts?



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