René Damkot wrote in post #13059080
No. I'm suggesting you don't need to re-format the drives. Leave them as they are.
Go out and buy a new one. Format that HFS+ if you like.
You then can either copy all off the NTFS drive to the new one (drag and drop will work. One thing to be aware of is how it works: http://www.tech-recipes.com …ve_files_instead_copying/ Between two different drives will always be a copy instead of a move (good thing™)
Then format the NTFS one if you want. Or just leave them NTFS and use Paragon or another way to read and write NTFS on OSX. I once downloaded a trial of Tuxera: http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/ when I had to copy a file to a friends NTFS formatted drive.
About 5 minutes work, including install and reboot, and worked like a charm.
IMO, there is no reason to shuffle gigabytes of data around, just to re-format a drive, if the mac can easily read and write them.
Also: If you reformat to HFS+, you'll have the same problems getting a windows machine to read/ write to those: http://forums.macrumors.com …hp?p=11034909&postcount=6
If you no longer have a windows machine, that's obviously not a big problem.
Thunderbolt: http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt/
For TimeMachine, an external drive is fine by the way. It'll work in the background, but only the first run will take lots of time: After that, only changed files will be back-upped: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
No. I'm suggesting you don't need to re-format the drives. Leave them as they are.
Go out and buy a new one. Format that HFS+ if you like.
You then can either copy all off the NTFS drive to the new one (drag and drop will work. One thing to be aware of is how it works: http://www.tech-recipes.com …ve_files_instead_copying/
Between two different drives will always be a copy instead of a move (good thing™) Then format the NTFS one if you want. Or just leave them NTFS and use Paragon or another way to read and write NTFS on OSX. I once downloaded a trial of Tuxera: http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/
when I had to copy a file to a friends NTFS formatted drive.About 5 minutes work, including install and reboot, and worked like a charm.
IMO, there is no reason to shuffle gigabytes of data around, just to re-format a drive, if the mac can easily read and write them.
Also: If you reformat to HFS+, you'll have the same problems getting a windows machine to read/ write to those: http://forums.macrumors.com …hp?p=11034909&postcount=6
If you no longer have a windows machine, that's obviously not a big problem.
Thunderbolt: http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt/
For TimeMachine, an external drive is fine by the way. It'll work in the background, but only the first run will take lots of time: After that, only changed files will be back-upped: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
What he said. ^2
If you want to keep a clone of your system/applications drive, I suggest you buy yet another disk, and a piece of software called "SuperDuper." This $30 piece of software can be be scheduled to wake up and make and maintain a bootable clone of your boot drive. I do this every night at 11:30. As with Time Machine, it will do incremental backups after the first copy. It may be that you will need a Firewire drive to do this, but that has probably changed.
