NTFS for Mac OS X allows a stable exchange of data between Windows and Mac. This is a multilingual software including Chinese, Korean, Russian and other more. NTFS for Mac OS X does not support Microsoft dynamic volumes. Power PC G4 and G5 are not supported.
Paragon Software has released a new version of our NTFS for Mac software. NTFS for Mac is the only software of it’s kind that allows Mac users read and write to Windows formatted drives. Do you work or live in an environment where you have both Macs and PCs being used? How many external storage devices do you have for each of them? Now you can share one storage device and access it by both platforms.
NTFS for Mac OS X 8.0 is the first NTFS driver to support Snow Leopard in 32 and 64-bit mode!
More articles about NTFS for Mac OS X 8:
The product was reviewed in Mac life: http://www.maclife.com/article/news/paragon_releases_ntfs_mac_os_x_80
The lack of write capability for NTFS volumes is a real thorn in the side of OS X. Currently windows and OS X don't share write capability on any sort of 'professional' disk format. If you use FAT32 you will quickly run into the max file size limit (especially if you do video work). NTFS Write Support On OS X Mountain Lion How to Enable NTFS Write Support in Mac OS X I personally have chosen the more pragmatic way, just open a terminal and issue some mount commands like. Format the External Drive to FAT32. This method is not very coinvent. Not at least for me.
Also it was reviewed in Techcentral.ie and the verdict was: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X is an essential installation for anyone working with Macs and PCS, as it helps to break down the barriers that exist between the two operating systems. The product got 5 stars and recognized with the Editor’s choice award!!!
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Also see following Mac-websites posted about the release:
iPhone World: http://news.iphoneworld.ca/inews/Paragon+Releases+NTFS+for+Mac+OS+X+8.0
Mac Surfer (News – press releases): http://www.macsurfer.com/?ndate=2010-04-13§ion=osx
Macintouch (updated products): http://www.macintouch.com/index.shtml
Article written by Mark Wilson has appeared on Download Crew: http://notquitelive.downloadcrew.co.uk/?act=article&id=6500
Macsimum News: http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/ntfs_8.0_supports_snow_leopard_in_32-bit_64-bit_modes/
Mac Tech: http://www.mactech.com/2010/04/15/ntfs-80-supports-snow-leopard-32-bit-64-bit-modes
In my case, a family member's Windows laptop broke and I convinced her to get a Mac instead, so I needed to get some old data off the laptop's hard disk. While I could read all the important files using 10.3.8 without problem (I took the hard disk out of the laptop computer and put it in an external USB hard disk enclosure, so I could easily plug it in, browse through the directory contents and sort out what seemed to be valuable data), I decided it would make me feel more comfortable to burn a backup of the whole 'Documents and Settings' folder to DVD for archival, in case I forgot to transfer something.Interesting. Presumably when you say it 'broke' you mean it was non-bootable. Clearly the hard drive was still working. Was the rest of the hardware intact? I had a similar situation with a friend recently. Her machine would not boot into Windows (it got as far as the Windows boot screen and restarted). She had one of those Windows XP restore CDs that formats your drive and replaces it with a system image. This would have resulted in the complete loss of all her files. I considered taking her drive out and attaching it to my Mac but assumed that MacOS X would not be able to read NTFS at all. (In any case I run 10.3.9, so may not have had much luck anyway).
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I fixed her situation as follows. I downloaded a Knoppix CD ISO (A Linux boot CD distribution) and burn it to a cd with hdiutl burn KNOPPIX_V3.9-2005-05-27-EN.iso. I then booted the 'dead' PC with Knoppix, whilst plugged into my home network. Once booted I mounted her hard disk under Linux and navigated to her Documents and Settings folder. Then I started netkit-ftp and connected via ftp to my Mac and issued the following command under the ftp prompt This will placed her user directory (which includes 'My Documents', Desktop, etc.) into a tar file called herusername_backup.tar, which was uploaded onto my Mac.
I was then able to use the XP system restore CD to reinstall Windows XP onto her machine (plus various service packs and updates downloaded from the web) and restore her personal files by grabbing the tar file from my Mac via ftp. (I downloaded a Windows version of tar to open the tar file; Winzip or one of the many other archivers would also have worked).
Anyway, I'm writing this as I thought it might be useful info for others here who are similarly trying to access files on a broken Windows machine. You would of course need a network to use this method but it does allow you to make use of Linux's NTFS reading capabilities should you not have MacOS x 10.4 or greater (and you don't have to mess with hardware by removing or adding drives to anyof the machines). I believe Knoppix will also allow writing of an NTFS disk (if you use the Captive NTFS tool), though I did not test this as it wasn't needed in this case.
Finally, using put '| tar cvpf - foldername' backup.tar from the ftp prompt of MacOS X is a good way of backing stuff from your Mac to another machine (be it Mac, Linux or Windows) because it will ensure that your resource forks, file names and permissions are properly saved. This assumes you running 10.4 or greater, since the old versions of tar do not support resource forks (though a work around would be to use xtar). I have written up a separate (more detailed) hint about this but it has not yet been published.