Comments on: How to: NTFS in OS X Leopard & Snow Leopard

By: steve

steve — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:37:04 +0000

hey, i have been looking for a tutorial on how to dual boot windows 7 and OS 10.5.3, can this be done?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:49:08 +0000

Thank you very much for the other option Wolfer (I like that name much better). I noticed both of those issues you were referring to, the slightly slower than native speeds and it having trouble reading a volume that wasnt properly removed.

By: Dave Wolf

Dave Wolf — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:25:24 +0000

While great FOSS, MacFuse and NTFS-3G, is fairly slow and has issues with NTFS volumes that weren’t gracefully exited. Not saying ANYTHING negative about the software at all. . . I use on my Hackintosh 1525 and it’s excellent, and like you stated Thomas, free.

On a couple of other work-related Hackintoshes, I use http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/ — Paragon’s NTFS for Mac. Just wanted others to know there are other solutions out there as well. This is DEFINITELY more mature/stable software, has the ability to recover from poorly shutdown NTFS volumes, and is exponentially faster when reading/writing, especially when dealing with many small read/write operations. Sure, you have to pay for it, but it’s all in what you need from either solution.

Again, just pointing out the other Mac NTFS options out there. Just like NTFS-3G, Disk Utility will not only identify NTFS volumes, but it will allow their creation, etc.

By: Nick Stobie

Nick Stobie — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:23:12 +0000

Works to perfection. Now that i have my dual boot up and running thanks to thomas and his step by step by step by step installation over aim this should come in handy.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:18:44 +0000

Glad its working good for you too

By: Jeixarf

Jeixarf — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:57:10 +0000

Hi Thomas
Thanks for the help.
For i noob, in the mac world, like me , all help is necessary.

Ps: Sorry my bad english, Portuguese FTW :D

Thanks