NTFS drive compatibility with 10.5 or before

Here's my question: Is there full compatibility in terms of the mac operating system being able to use NTFS formatted drives?
I have windows installed with bootcamp, and find it annoying that I can't access my mac-formatted external hard drive (I know about the program macdrive, but it has limited function as I tried to use one program with my mac drive and it kept telling me that the drive was "already in use" and couldn't be used, aka macdrive doesn't completely resolve usage issues). So I tried plugging in my friend's external hard drive (NTFS formatted) and of course that worked fine. I also accessed a few files on the drive when I was booted in Leopard and there didn't seem to be any problems. So I thought about formatting my existing mac drive into NTFS format since apparently mac can read and write to it fine but Windows can't deal with mac-formatted drives.
Is there any reason I shouldn't do this? Are there any compatibility issues at all between mac and NTFS-formatted drives?

OSX can read but not write to NTFS partitions. Windows can't read Mac formatted partitions at all (without the use of third party software).
Your question was about the mac operating system being able to use NTFS. But if you're booted into Windows via bootcamp, you've got it backwards. You're wanting to know if Windows is compatible with Mac formats, not if the mac can use NTFS.
Yes there's a reason - they're two different operating systems, and neither manufacturer has built-in full compatibility with the other. At least with OSX, you can read NTFS drives.
Personally, I like that separation. The last thing I want to expose my Mac data to is all the bad stuff that can happen when booted into Windows.
If you want something akin to full compatibility, you can't beat Parallels. With the intel chips, the only thing that doesn't run super-fast are games. You can drag and drop between the two operating systems, create shares, and set a security level for your Mac to protect it against Windows dangers to it. There are TONS of reasons why I prefer Parallels - easy to back up an entire Windows "installation" by simply copying the virtual hard disk file to another disk; you can save your last windows state so you don't have to go through a whole Windows boot process, you can create 'snapshots' that are better than Microsoft's own Restore Point technology, etc. It's fantastic.

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Files aren't ntfs or hfs or ufs or zfs.
Those are file systems that is the basis for how the OS stores the files on the computer. Files are store inside a file system, but the file system doesn't normally affect the file itself.
Mac OS X can natively read nt file systems. If you want to write, then you'll need something like Siddharth Khanna pointed out. I've also used Tuxera's product. You can use a combination of MacFuse and NTFS-3G for free, but if you need normal everyday access, that's going to fall short, I think.
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Query on Driver Compatibility with Oracle 9i & Oracle 11g

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savvydog wrote:
I have a Z60t and want an additional thinkpad windows 7. I am thinking that a T series would have compatibility in terms of my advanced mini dock and batteries. I would my original Z60t hard drive with XP work in a new T series and would my old XP boot up?
thanks for any ideas on this
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Advanced_Mini_Dock states that the dock from the z60t is compatable with the T400/500. I am not sure about compatability with the T410/510.
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this is the tips to free up your disk space
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Thanks for adding consumer comments.
No sound in QuickTime (with the Playback Component installed) is probably created by Sony (not Apple). I'll bet they use their own "scheme" (proprietary codecs).
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ovidiu wrote:
What about Rescue and Recovery and all the other apps in the ThinkVantage suite, are they all hardware agnostic? If so, I do not understand why Lenovo bothers to provide compatibility informations for different harddisks.
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USB drive compatibility with Airport Routers. Help make database.

Please HELP.
Everyone who has a USB drive plugged into the airport directly and working, I want to assemble a database of those that work and those that fail.
And if you could not get it to work but it is ok on a powered USB hub please also give that info.
I see the question over and over about failure of the USB drive to work on a Time Capsule or Extreme (Express is not compatible).
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Yet when people plug their drive into the airport, all correctly formatted it does not work.
There are obvious considerations..
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Info I would like.
1. Make and model.. as much info as required that a person could go out and buy that same one. ie versions maybe important.
2. Does it work directly on the AE/TC?.. yes or no.
3. Does it work via a powered hub? yes or no. Leave this blank if the answer to 2 is yes.
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Touro Desk Pro:
Product ID:          0x1013
Vendor ID:          0x4971
Version:           0.00
Serial Number:          31001304180002200312
Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          HGST
Location ID:          0xfa130000 / 5
Current Available (mA):          500
Current Required (mA):          8
Capacity:          1 TB (1,000,204,136,448 bytes)
Removable Media:          Yes
Detachable Drive:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk1
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
It will be more useful as a copy and paste.
But here is the screenshot. So you know where to find it.
5. Comments
You might want to tell us if it is terrible or slow.. or cheap and excellent.. recommend to others or stay away.
The last bit I want is to work out if any of the technical id stuff helps.
What is the USB chipset? You do not need to add the info.. I can search for it.. but when I google the Vendor ID: 0x4971 I discover this is JMicron.
If you are interested then please you can add it as well.
There is a lot of info around the web.. look for reliable source.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Supported_USB-Devices
6. USB chipset. JMicron
Maybe we can track down the factors that are making it hard to pick devices that work and devices that don't.
At least have a list of drives known to work could be helpful.
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3. Yes
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Product ID:          0x0740
Vendor ID:          0x1058 (Western Digital Technologies, Inc.)
Version:          10.07
Serial Number:          575852314342315738313335
Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Western Digital
Location ID:          0x26200000 / 3
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Current Required (mA):          500
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3. Yes
4.
Product ID:          0x6390
Vendor ID:          0x058f (Alcor Micro, Corp.)
Version:           1.00
Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Generic
Location ID:          0x24100000 / 3
Current Available (mA):          500
Current Required (mA):          100
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Removable Media:          Yes
Detachable Drive:          Yes
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Partition Map Type:          APM (Apple Partition Map)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
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3. Yes
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Product ID:          0xa013
Vendor ID:          0x0bc2 (Seagate LLC)
Version:           1.00
Serial Number:          NA5P3KTA
Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Seagate
Location ID:          0x26200000 / 3
Current Available (mA):          500
Current Required (mA):          100
Capacity:          1 TB (1,000,204,885,504 bytes)
Removable Media:          Yes
Detachable Drive:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk5
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
5. Purchased in 2013.
1. Drobo 5D
2. No.
3. No, not even on a Belkin Powered USB hub.
4.
Product ID:          0x3455
Vendor ID:          0x19b9
Version:           0.00
Serial Number:          D0B135101700078
Speed:          Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Drobo
Location ID:          0x24100000 / 3
Current Available (mA):          500
Current Required (mA):          2
Capacity:          17.59 TB (17,592,186,044,416 bytes)
Removable Media:          Yes
Detachable Drive:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk4
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
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I have a Power Mac G5 with dual 1.8 GHz cpu's, 2.5 gigabytes of ram. Boot rom version 5.1.5f0 running OSX 4.11. And a Power PC G4
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I formatted it with a fresh OSX 10.5 I bought the family pack for the operating system so I'm legal and this was the 2nd computer to be loaded. The installation was complete but on reboot it went to my internal drive so I never was able to set up the internet settings and such to this startup drive. It will show up in finder and also under the system pref, under startup drive. So when you select it under that it still will just reboot to the internal drive?
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That's all correct.
However (and I've just found this), not all Western Digital drives are fully boot-compatible across both Intel and PowerPC Macs. Check out this table - you may find your drive just isn't supported:
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I've just set up boot camp on my MacBookPro with a freshly installed Mountain Lion and Windows 7.
I would like to read and write in both directions from drive to drive if possible. I've hunted around quite a bit to try and work this out, and so far I understand that one can write to or transfer files from one drive to the other with Paragon NTFS among other softwares.
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MacFUSE is also listed in the System Preferences of my machine (it also came with Mountain Lion), if that helps. I'm still working out exactly what each of these is supposed to do and how I can use it to accomplish the task at hand.
My boot camp drive does appear normally in other contexts and in disk utility it indicates that the drive is mounted.
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Interesting. Comes with? you didn't have either before? Paragon is commercial and is now v. 10.0, they were the only one keeping updated and was supporting 10.7.4. I would not enable more than one.
For writing to HFS Paragon has theirs but probably give the nod to MacDrive there.
I never do an upgrade to a new OS over the old system, I backup (clone) and format the drive with the new OS and do the install so whatever is there I know is clean and also to keep from carrying around leftovers from years and systems past.
I would assme Paragon is limited. Try their site and knowledge base?
MacDrive
http://www.mediafour.com/updates/macdrive
Paragon HFS
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/
Paragon NTFS
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26288/ntfs-for-mac-os-x
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

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