Today the situation is quite interesting in my computing life family : my wife had been pressing since good time to buy an external hard disk that he had promised , where he would store all photos and home videos to transfer to my Mac Book Pro immediately after purchase so that she has access to them when you want.
That said , I got a good record Iomega 1TB , I remembered an important detail that had not taken into account: while Windows uses the file system NTFS (Owned by Microsoft ), while Snow Leopard works with the system HFS +. What does this mean ? Well, if you format the disk in my Mac HFS + format , Windows may not recognize it , and if I format to NTFS , my Mac can read the files on disk, but you can not write to the same (read only) .
I decided not to make life difficult for my wife and format the drive to NTFS (the format of the desktop Windows 7 and my wife's notebook , with Windows Vista) and try to find some way, economically as possible, of get my Mac to copy files to new hard drive. I managed to find a solution, unfortunately not free of charge :
First , download and install MacFUSE (http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/), A Google Code project that extends the native support for Mac files to other formats ( NTFS improving Sopot ).
The second tool to install is NTFS -3G (http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/) , a tool that will allow us to read and write to NTFS formatted hard disk . This tool is free only for 15 days , and the annual license fee is $ 31.
This is basically everything. Now, to connect my new hard drive to my Mac , I have no problem to copy files from the hard drive to my Mac or vice versa. A new chapter in the eternal battle of Mac vs. PC fixed.
