Hey POTN,
Just wondering what is the easiest method to re format a Seagate harddrive from the windows format (NTFS) to Mac format?
Possibly without erasing it, but they could be an option if needed.
Thanks.
tupper Tupperware Party Sheep  2,432 posts Joined Nov 2007 Location: Sydney More info | Dec 11, 2008 07:38 | #1 Hey POTN, Ewan
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Pete I was "Prime Mover" many years back....  38,631 posts Likes: 25 Joined Jul 2006 Location: Berkshire, UK More info | Dec 11, 2008 07:48 | #2 Why do you need to do that? The Mac should be able to read and write NTFS (at least my one does).
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Dec 11, 2008 08:07 | #3 Pete wrote in post #6856813  Why do you need to do that? The Mac should be able to read and write NTFS (at least my one does). Mine doesn't seem to want to, under Sharing Permissions it says read only Ewan
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Pete I was "Prime Mover" many years back.... 38,631 posts Likes: 25 Joined Jul 2006 Location: Berkshire, UK More info | Dec 11, 2008 08:09 | #4 |
iMac, OS X 10.5.5 Ewan
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Pete I was "Prime Mover" many years back.... 38,631 posts Likes: 25 Joined Jul 2006 Location: Berkshire, UK More info | Dec 11, 2008 08:14 | #6 And this is a USB external drive you're attaching?
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Dec 11, 2008 08:18 | #7 Pete wrote in post #6856914 And this is a USB external drive you're attaching? Yes, FreeAgent Drive. Ewan
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Pete I was "Prime Mover" many years back.... 38,631 posts Likes: 25 Joined Jul 2006 Location: Berkshire, UK More info | Dec 11, 2008 08:22 | #8 |
Pete I was "Prime Mover" many years back.... 38,631 posts Likes: 25 Joined Jul 2006 Location: Berkshire, UK More info | Dec 11, 2008 08:24 | #9 Actually,
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Lucky, i already have MacFUSE, I'll let you know if its successful, thank you! Ewan
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Pete I was "Prime Mover" many years back.... 38,631 posts Likes: 25 Joined Jul 2006 Location: Berkshire, UK More info | Dec 11, 2008 08:31 | #11 You will also need the NTFS plugin for it (as long as you have MacFuse 2.0)
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Mark Dammit I need sleep  3,386 posts Joined May 2008 Location: Perth, Australia More info | Dec 11, 2008 09:51 | #12 IMO you really should format as HFS+, that will wipe the data, but it is faster as HFS+ than NTFS in mac, seriously.... Mark
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Pete I was "Prime Mover" many years back.... 38,631 posts Likes: 25 Joined Jul 2006 Location: Berkshire, UK More info | Dec 11, 2008 09:54 | #13 Reformatting as HFS will trash the drive as far as sharing data with Windows PCs is involved.
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Mark Dammit I need sleep 3,386 posts Joined May 2008 Location: Perth, Australia More info | Dec 11, 2008 10:00 | #14 Pete wrote in post #6857452 Reformatting as HFS will trash the drive as far as sharing data with Windows PCs is involved. At least with the MacFuse option, the drive remains useable for both platforms. Yes, yes it would, The problem with macfuse is that it is not native and slows down performance a fair bit, if need to share between mac and pc and don't need files over 4gb format it as fat-32 it is faster than ntfs on mac..... Mark
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sOid Member 207 posts Joined Apr 2007 Location: Netherlands More info | Dec 11, 2008 10:20 | #15 pendulum15 wrote in post #6857439 IMO you really should format as HFS+, that will wipe the data, but it is faster as HFS+ than NTFS in mac, seriously.... Just back the data up to another drive, open up disk utility (search on spotlight) and click on the drive, go to erase tab, then choose "Mac OS Extended (journaled)" give it a name, click erase and you're done.... Atleast that is what I would do.... I agree. HFS+ on a mac is way more reliable than an option to write to NTFS. More chance on dataloss etc.
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