One of Apple's selling points for OS X is the enhanced Windows compatibility, but the lack of write ability to NTFS drives makes transferring files between the Mac OS and Bootcamp rather cumbersome.

Do you mean MacFuse? I don't know if it's the latest Mac OS or if MacFuse has gotten better, but writing to NTFS is pretty damn fast, pretty much no difference between HFS and NTFS, iirc. But it's ...

I'm running version...um...8.2 if I remember correctly.<BR><BR>Linux used to auto-mount my Fat32 drives, but then I upgraded to Windows XP, and so my drives are all ...

Microsoft introduced the New Technology File System (NTFS), a proprietary journaling file system, in Windows NT 3.1 in 1993. Since then, it replaced 1977's File Allocation Table (FAT) file system in ...

It’s a bad time to invest in a portable USB hard drive as a Mac fan. Apple’s dropped Firewire support on many of their notebooks, but have yet to adopt the USB 3.0 standard, leaving Apple customers ...

The issue arises because the disk signature (a unique identifier) is the same on both drives. Windows uses this signature to identify disks. When two drives share the same signature, Windows considers ...