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10.3: Mount and use NTFS disks natively
Authored by: dfbills on Jan 08, '04 03:01:12PM

Too bad this is read-only.. a nice start though.



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10.3: Mount and use NTFS disks natively
Authored by: wipedaler on Apr 24, '04 11:08:21PM

I found this instruction and used it to set up a 200Gb external IDE drive in a firewire/USB2 enclosure. Perhaps it will work for you.

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I had exactly same problem, this is how I fixed it with my 160GB external drive.

The idea is to create partitions on target windows system and than format them on OS X.

You should be root and very carefull in terminal window on OS X.

1. Create two partitions in Windows (w2k in my case), first for HFS+, second for FAT32. No need to format them.
2. Connect drive to OS X. Befor switching drive on run this command from terminal

ls /dev/rdisk?

, you'll get list of current disks.

3. Switch on ext. drive. If OS X pop up with window about initing new drive press ignore.

4. Repeat last command. Now you should see one more disk in the list. Remeber it's number (e.g.: 2).

5. Make

ls /dev/rdisk2*

You should get rdisk2s1 and rdisk2s2 - first is first partition, second is second.

6. Run command

6a. If the drives mount on the desktop, eject the drives

newfs_hfs -v VOLUME_NAME /dev/rdisk2s1

When it's done you have HFS+ partition.

7. Run command

newfs_msdos -v FAT_VOLUME_NAME -F 32 /dev/rdisk2s2

Now you have FAT32. It's not limited by 32G - I have 100G and it works at least with OS X 10.2.6.

7. Powercycle ext. drive.

8. In my case OS X picks up FAT32 partition, but doesn't recognize HFS+ (what an irony . Type

hdid /dev/disk2s1

and it will mount and show icon on display.
Pay attention - this time it's not rdisk2s1, but disk2s1.

9. On Windows go to disk manager and assign some letter to FAT32 drive. W2K works fine with partitions >32G, just doesn't want to create them.

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10.3: Mount and use NTFS disks natively
Authored by: lyrrad on May 02, '04 01:22:44PM

just tried out this tip. works good so far. i tried it because I have a FW drive I share data between my AL-PB and my PC, but at the same time I require a partition solely for OSX to store OSX-only data for archiving and backup. (alas insufficient mulas for a new FW case + hdd)

WindowsXP will not (obviously) read the HFS+ partition, and load the FAT32 partition. 10.3.2 will automatically mount the FAT32 partition but not the HFS+ partition automatically. have to manually mount it with the hdid command.

wondering if there's a workaround to mount the HFS partition automatically rather then manually via terminal.



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