I need to return a external drive to windows NTFS uncompressed but disc utility keep formatting in NTFS compressed
I need to return an external drive (Seagate GoFlex Satellite) to windows NTFS uncompressed format but disc utility keeps formatting in NTFS compressed.
OS X can only read NTFS partitions. I doubt it can create them. I only see MSDOS FAT and ExFAT as choices in Disk Utility and neither are NTFS. If you have MacFUSE installed and the NTFS-3G plugin you might be able to do it in Disk Utility. However, it will be very very slow.
It might be easier to connect the drive to a PC and format it that way. Use the quick format option unless you suspect the disk to have bad sectors. Or setup Boot Camp, install Windows and format the drive when you dual boot into Windows. Or you could setup a virtual machine using Oracle VirtualBox, Parallels, or VMWare Fusion to access Windows so you can format the disk.
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Im using Windowns XP, someone must have an easy solution, surlyey just because you buy an iphone doesnt mean you have to have a certain size computer!!
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There's a way to have your photos on the external drive but have a library on your Mac using iPhoto 6's alias mode. That keeps the bulk of the file size off your Mac. I have 17,600 images (27G in size) on an external HD and my library is only 1.6G in size. Check out these Tutorials on how to go about setting it up. The caveat is that the PC user, as JMEH pointed out, should not work on the actual files but save any edited versions to another locations. Those files should be read only for all users.
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