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Old 05-11-2009, 09:38 PM
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Snow Leopard's Boot Camp Includes HFS+ Windows Drivers

macrumors.com, May 08, 2009:

MacRumors has learned that Apple's Boot Camp utility under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will include Windows HFS+ drivers, which will allow Windows installations to read Mac OS X HFS+ formatted partitions.

Boot Camp is Apple's software package that allows customers to boot Microsoft's Windows operating system on their Intel Macs. The Boot Camp package includes the necessary Windows drivers to support each Mac's hardware. Windows, however, does not routinely recognize Mac formatted hard drives and is unable to read or write to them without special drivers. The newest version of Snow Leopard's Boot Camp appears to include these special drivers to allow read access to Mac data even under Windows.

The move should make it easier for customers to switch between Windows and Mac operating systems by allowing files to be more easily transfered back and forth. Up until now, customers would have to rely on third-party utilities such as Mediafour's MacDrive to accomplish the same task.
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Old 05-11-2009, 10:58 PM
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Interesting, I have to check this out.
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Old 05-12-2009, 04:51 AM
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How about allowing OS X to read and write NTFS volumes? Apple should have done that a long time ago.
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Old 05-12-2009, 07:39 AM
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why doesnt everyone just use NTFSForMacOSX by Paragon to read NTFS on OS X and MacDrive 7 on Windows to read HFS+ i see so many people complain but all it takes is a quick google search to get tons of software to do the job, those are the 2 i personally like the best

here are links to them:
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
http://www.paragon-software.com/home.../download.html

woops sorry just read the bottom bit of the post :S sorry i just hear a lot of people complaining about it, but like whats wrong with these 3rd party apps, they dont exactly effect performance much or anything

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Old 05-12-2009, 09:39 AM
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How about allowing OS X to read and write NTFS volumes? Apple should have done that a long time ago.
That is already included inside of Snow Leopard.
Build 10a190 had read and write to NTFS and I would assume that the rest of them do too.

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why doesnt everyone just use NTFSForMacOSX by Paragon to read NTFS on OS X and MacDrive 7 on Windows to read HFS+
Well there is one reason that MacDrive 7 isn't used by many and that is because it does not work on any 64 bit version of the windows operating system.

The Paragon NTFS driver does work nicely and I use it inside of Leopard on my real Mac Pro and I use the MacFuse Ntfs on the hacks.

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Old 05-12-2009, 07:00 PM
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Great news.

It will for sure be more stable than any currently available HFS reader for Windows.
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Old 05-12-2009, 08:57 PM
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i'm just waiting Snow Leopard comes out!!!!!!!

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Old 05-18-2009, 03:55 AM
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Well there is one reason that MacDrive 7 isn't used by many and that is because it does not work on any 64 bit version of the windows operating system.
Just thought I'd post a reply to this. The current version of MacDrive 7 (v7.2.6) does indeed work on Vista x64. I'm not sure when they added support for 64-bit Windows, but the latest version does work, and works very well.
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Old 06-13-2009, 11:06 PM
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v7.2.8 works perfect with all XP/Vista versions.

Beta version of MacDrive 8 works with Win7 too.
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Old 09-20-2009, 07:38 PM
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I'm completely sure I would be dancing if I had a mac .



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