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Old 10-14-2008, 10:26 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by llama64 View Post
I've got an external drive that's currently being used as a Time Machine backup disk. I'd like to re-purpose it into a universal disk for both my Macbook and my Vista machine.

Ideally, I'd like to use all 500 GB as a single resource for both computers (no partitioning). Is this possible? Can OS X read/write on an NTFS disk without screwing it up?
I'm pretty sure the answer is "yes, but you'll need a software interpreter."

Edit: http://www.osnews.com/story/16930 and http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/

Edit: Or just this: http://www.google.ca/search?q=write+to+ntfs+on+mac for some more infos.

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