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Voyn1x 05-11-2009 09:38 PM

Snow Leopard's Boot Camp Includes HFS+ Windows Drivers
 
http://www.infinitemac.com/images/ne...opard-disk.pngmacrumors.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.

Superhai 05-11-2009 10:58 PM

Interesting, I have to check this out.

TechSgtChen 05-12-2009 04:51 AM

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

Aydinz 05-12-2009 07:39 AM

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 :)

ludacrisvp 05-12-2009 09:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TechSgtChen (Post 26327)
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.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aydinz (Post 26329)
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 05-12-2009 07:00 PM

Great news.

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

erick2red 05-12-2009 08:57 PM

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

IceBreakerG 05-18-2009 03:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ludacrisvp (Post 26335)
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 06-13-2009 11:06 PM

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

Beta version of MacDrive 8 works with Win7 too.

amantonas 09-20-2009 07:38 PM

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

maya77 09-22-2009 12:55 AM

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

thorazine74 09-22-2009 08:31 AM

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

Imkantus 09-22-2009 09:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thorazine74 (Post 35528)
Can we us hackintosh users install and use Apple's BootCamp HFS drivers somehow?

Check this out: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=183351

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

Breathless 12-22-2009 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maya77 (Post 35495)
Better yet - NTFS write support is implemented in Snow Leopard, just needs to be enabled.


Quote:

Originally Posted by Imkantus (Post 35532)
Check this out: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=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 12-22-2009 07:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Breathless (Post 41604)
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 12-22-2009 07:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ianxxx (Post 41607)
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/20...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 12-22-2009 08:50 PM

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

Breathless 12-22-2009 09:47 PM

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

Thanks