Read Only Drive?


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Ok heres the situation. I have a windows drive, with about 50 gigs of data that i'd like to use in conjunction with my FTP server on the mac. I connected the drive to my mac, and it shows up on the desktop w/ all the data. However, i only have permission to read :( ....The disk is formatted with NTFS, and i know thats most likely the reason...is there anyway around this?...can i somehow make it read/writeable? Any help is appreciated

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I'm pretty sure that project is read-only still.

The drivers built into OSX only support reading of the drive. There is pretty much no read/write solution out there that is stable. The linux NTFS drivers are getting there, but aren't stable enough to trust yet.

If you can, I'd try reformatting with FAT32. Partition Magic may actually be able to do this without destroying data, IIRC.

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If you can, I'd try reformatting with FAT32. Partition Magic may actually be able to do this without destroying data, IIRC.

Yes, Partition Magic can convert from NTFS back to Fat32, with the only issue being that any NTFS permissions will be stripped from the files. By the way, that does bring up the rather interesting point that using NTFS permissions to secure data on Windows isn't secure at all, when someone can easily just convert the drive to Fat32 and gain access to it.

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As far as I know, it doesn't get the encrypted stuff. However, Partition Magic has been around for ages, so you would think Microsoft would have taken this into account. That's why physical security is always the most important first step in any security plan.

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