I was on an apple that had MAC and WIN on it. MAC can read files WIN partitions, but not write to them. And the error did not say why. Why is this? Copyright reasons?
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I was on an apple that had MAC and WIN on it. MAC can read files WIN partitions, but not write to them. And the error did not say why. Why is this? Copyright reasons?
As far as I know, Macs cannot safely write to an ntfs partition. So write permissions are most likely disabled. I could be wrong.
Hmmm there is no NTFS driver for Mac? I thought that Mac OS X is closer to its Unix roots, if that is so, then you should be able to find a driver for your NTFS needs, unless of course I am mistaken on how related they are.
I have never owned a Mac nor have I delved too deeply into Mac OS X since my main exposure to Mac was public school and I graduated from that a couple years ago.
But how can it read from an NTFS without the driver, yet it needs the driver to write? If it knows the format to read isn't that the same as knowing the format to write?
it is not the sameQuote:
Originally Posted by Queatrix
let's take the simple example. FAT format stores the list information in two copies of the FAT table...
It is enough for reading to be able to locate the first instance and read info from it.
to write - you should know how to locate the second copy of the FAT-table. Otherwise after your write operation the partition will be left in some inconsistant state...
So as you see you can have only partial information about format and it will be suffitient for reading, but not for writing. To write - you need fully understand the format
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Does this mean is does not matter?Quote:
So as you see you can have only partial information about format and it will be suffitient for reading, but not for writing. To write - you need fully understand the format
sorry I am very slow when it comes to partitions even though I have overwritten my millnium 1000 times.
It means that you can read the data on a particular partition without having to know the full information on the partition type. But to write without corrupting the drive you need to have 100% knowledge.
Also, you can't destroy anything by reading. If you make a mistake in reading, the worst you get is that the data you read is wrong. No lasting damage done. If you make a mistake in writing, you can destroy data.
The open-source NTFS driver currently supports only very limited forms of writing. Effectively, it's a read-only driver: you can read NTFS partitions, but you can't write to them.