Backing up to USB with NTFS partitions
ok, so Im moving from windows, with NTFS. I have backed all my data up to NTFS usb external drive (required for 4gb+ files) I need to get my dat OFF this drive, onto my mac OS data drive currently its READ only in OSX. I want to copy it to…
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ok, so Im moving from windows, with NTFS.
I have backed all my data up to NTFS usb external drive (required for 4gb+ files)
I need to get my dat OFF this drive, onto my mac OS data drive
currently its READ only in OSX.
I want to copy it to my OSX drive BUT i want to keep a copy on my usb drive in case I find in the future the transfer was corrupt.
The problem comes when I want to backup to the USB drive along side my ntfs backup, I cant write to it with Time machine, LaCie, super Duper.
What is the wrokaround? Can I use my windows App to shrink the ntfs and install a new partion to backup to? will OSX backups mind this?
I dont want to delete my drive and handover the whole usb drive to Time machine etc.
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