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Note, I will assume that you know how to install Windows 7 in VirtualBox. Once you have Windows 7 installed in VirtualBox and working, shut it down for the moment.

Using ntfs on mac mac os x#

How to format a new hard drive with NTFS on Mac OS X So, this is why I use NTFS as my carry around standard for both Windows and Mac. Note, I use large 1-2TB sized hard drives and NTFS is much more efficient with space allocation than FAT32 for these sized disks. Because Mac can mount NTFS, but Windows has no hope of mounting MacOS Journaled filesystems, I opted to use NTFS as my disk carry standard. If you’re like me, I have a Mac at work and Windows at home. The MacOS X native NTFS mounter will corrupt disks in write mode. Do not override MacOS X’s native NTFS mounter and have it write to volumes (even though it is possible). On the other hand, ntfs-3g regularly corrupts volumes and will require chkdsk to clean up the volume periodically. Tuxera is stable and I’ve had no troubles with it corrupting NTFS volumes which would require a ‘chkdsk’ operation to fix. If you plan on writing to NTFS partitions, I highly recommend Tuxera over ntfs-3g.

For reading from NTFS, MacOS X can natively mount and read from NTFS partitions in read-only mode.

For writing to NTFS partitions on MacOS X:.

Windows 7 (any flavor) installed in VirtualBox (you can probably use Windows XP, but the commands may be different) (Windows is not free)įor reading / writing to NTFS formatted partitions (optional), you will need one of the following:.

Right up front I’m going to say that to accomplish this task, you must have the following prerequisites set up: This author accepts no liability for the use or misuse of the commands explored in this article. If you wipe your data accidentally by the use of the information contained in this article, you solely accept all risk. This information is provided as-is and all risk is incurred solely by the reader.

If you are uncomfortable working with commands like these, you shouldn’t attempt to follow this article. This article discusses commands that will format, destroy or otherwise wipe data from hard drives. That is, there is no native MacOS X tool to accomplish this, but it can be done. Note the prerequisites below as it’s not quite as straightforward as one would hope. This article is designed to show you how to mount and manage NTFS partitions in MacOS X.