Trying to write to a windows drive
A client asked me to edit nearly 100 gb of audio data, and so he loaded it all on an external USB iomega hard drive and dropped in the mail. Except his computer was a windows system, which means the hd is a windows Windows NTFS disk. I can read the files just fine, and can even grab them and drop them onto my desktop. But I can't write to his drive, so i have no way to add all my edits of his originals.
This morning, seeking a fix, I started by copying all the data onto one of my own backup hard drives. My intent was to erase the entire drive, and then reformat it. But i still haven't erased anything yet, because, even if erased, I haven't been able to figure out a sure way to re-format the drive so I can write to it, and then when i send it back to him, he can also read and write it. Do i need special software to do this, or is there something within OS 10.4 that will let me do this.
Hi Jim,
A few options...
You could format that HDD as Fat32/MS-DOS, but you'd be limited to 4 GB Filesizes.
NTFS-3G Stable Read/Write Driver...
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
MacFUSE: Full Read-Write NTFS for Mac OS X, Among Others...
http://www.osnews.com/story/16930
MacDrive for the PCs... allows them to Read/Write HFS+...
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
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