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13-11-2004, 04:11 PM
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Location: Perth
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Does anyone know of any way to convert a hard drive from NTFS to Mac format without losing the data? Ive just pulled a hard drive out of my old PC to use in an external case with my ibook but I forgot it was formatted in NTFS untill I tried to copy some files to it. The only other option i guess is to put it back into the PC and convert it to FAT32 as I dont have enough room anwhere else to store the data while i convert it 
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13-11-2004, 04:24 PM
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Stuck in IKEA. Send help.
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Location: St. Albans, Melbourne
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It can't be done bergerac
Thanks to Microsoft's proprietary file system, most developers can't get their hands on the code to make such programs to let us convert file systems without destroying data.
I'd convert it back to FAT32, then from there convert it to HFS+ |
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13-11-2004, 05:03 PM
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Location: Melbourne
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Originally posted by decryption@Nov 13 2004, 05:24 PM
It can't be done bergerac
Thanks to Microsoft's proprietary file system, most developers can't get their hands on the code to make such programs to let us convert file systems without destroying data.
I'd convert it back to FAT32, then from there convert it to HFS+
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er... What about Partition Magic on Windows?
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13-11-2004, 05:37 PM
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Just converted it to FAT32 using Partition Magic 8.0 on the PC, didnt have any other options for conversion on my copy but i seem to remember one of the older versions being able to convert to HFS? Maybe im just imagining
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13-11-2004, 06:38 PM
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Merry Pagan Sun God's day
Group: Administrators
Location: Fukuoka, Japan (originally Canberra)
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You can't convert it to HFS+. Simplest thing to do would be to mount the drive in OSX, as it will read NTFS and copy the data off it onto another HD then erase the drive as HFS+ and copy the data back. You'll loose any windows-based permissions though.
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15-11-2004, 02:57 AM
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Location: Perth
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Bugger...Ill have to get another hard drive because I dont have 50Gb of free space to save my data unless i re-rip my whole MP3 collection... Thanks for your help guys.. it will just have to stay FAT32 for now
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15-11-2004, 09:15 AM
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Location: Adelaide, AUS
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WTF? You cant convert NTFS to any other filesystem without formatting it.. Any suggestion otherwise is simply ludicrous!
.... or maybe something i just dont know ...
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15-11-2004, 01:44 PM
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Location: Perth
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errr.... i just did it on my PC with partition magic...
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15-11-2004, 03:32 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Adelaide, Australia
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on the page http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/features.html
the 12th feature listed:
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Converts partitions among FAT, FAT32, and NTFS without losing data.
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sorry cam :P
Partition Magic is awesome, we need something like this for Mac... how many times have I wanted to resize partitions etc.... it's one thing I'm envious the PC users have... If anyone knows of a piece of software that can do this kind of stuff on a Mac i'd love to hear about it. |
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