Snow Leopard's Boot Camp Includes HFS+ Windows Drivers

[Voyn1x]

http://www.infinitemac.com/images/news/snow-leopard-disk.pngmacrumors.com (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/05/06/snow-leopards-boot-camp-includes-hfs-windows-drivers/), 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.

[Superhai]

Interesting, I have to check this out.

[TechSgtChen]

How about allowing OS X to read and write NTFS volumes? Apple should have done that a long time ago.

[Aydinz]

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/ntfs-mac/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 :)

[ludacrisvp]

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.

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.

[maya77]

Great news.

It will for sure be more stable than any currently available HFS reader for Windows.

[erick2red]

i'm just waiting Snow Leopard comes out!!!!!!!

[IceBreakerG]

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.

[maya77]

v7.2.8 works perfect with all XP/Vista versions.

Beta version of MacDrive 8 works with Win7 too.

[amantonas]

I'm completely sure I would be dancing if I had a mac :D.

[maya77]

Better yet - NTFS write support is implemented in Snow Leopard, just needs to be enabled.

[thorazine74]

Can we us hackintosh users install and use Apple's BootCamp HFS drivers somehow?

[Imkantus]

Can we us hackintosh users install and use Apple's BootCamp HFS drivers somehow?Check this out: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=183351

I've testet on my girlfriends hackitnosh notebook @ Windows Vista (x86) and it works fine. :)

[Breathless]

Better yet - NTFS write support is implemented in Snow Leopard, just needs to be enabled.


Check this out: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=183351

I've testet on my girlfriends hackitnosh notebook @ Windows Vista (x86) and it works fine. :)

Then why do these linked drivers (which were directly from the snow leopard DVD) not include write support even though the included drivers on the Snow Leopard DVD were supposed to be read/write?

Anyone know?

[Ianxxx]

Then why do these linked drivers (which were directly from the snow leopard DVD) not include write support even though the included drivers on the Snow Leopard DVD were supposed to be read/write?

Anyone know?

Not quite sure what your asking but, if you mean apples ntfs driver it is read write but needs to be enabled default is read only, you can do this by making an fstab file and specifying rw

e.g.

UUID=145BBCD2-1E6F-FF4C-9D26-E137472E67CA none ntfs rw

[Breathless]

Not quite sure what your asking but, if you mean apples ntfs driver it is read write but needs to be enabled default is read only, you can do this by making an fstab file and specifying rw

e.g.

UUID=145BBCD2-1E6F-FF4C-9D26-E137472E67CA none ntfs rw

I mean the HFS drivers in Windows. In the link I referenced above, the user extracted the HFS drivers from the snow leopard DVD that is supposed to give Read/Write access to HFS partitions in windows, however the user reports that it only enables read access.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/05/snow-leopard-update-new-features-apple-readying-final-push.ars

Quoting this article:

"First on the list of new features, the version of Boot Camp supplied with Snow Leopard will include HFS+ drivers for Windows. These drivers will allow direct read and write access to Mac-formatted drives when booted into Windows. The added convenience should eliminate the need to rely on FAT-formatted drives or third-party utilities like MacDrive for moving files between operating systems."

[Imkantus]

Your source is simply wrong.
The Bootcamp HFS driver enables read access only.

[Breathless]

apparently, they were wrong. There were several other sites that said the same thing. Oh well. I guess that gives me my answer.

Thanks