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Old 02-12-2007, 06:50 PM
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Format NTFS in Mac OS X
This is a strange question to ask, but how do I format NTFS in Mac OS X it self? I need it to fromat the Boot Camp partition into NTFS, but I lost my Win XP SP2 disc and TinyXP can't do that.
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Old 02-12-2007, 07:01 PM
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Why format to NTFS if you cant even use it, and if your using it in another OS why not format it in that OS?
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Old 02-12-2007, 07:04 PM
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OSX by itself can't create NTFS volumes. You're going to need to find your Windows XPSP2 disc again.

OSX can format as FAT32, which is sufficient for XP etc to run on.


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Old 02-12-2007, 07:10 PM
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Why format to NTFS if you cant even use it, and if your using it in another OS why not format it in that OS?
It's for a workaround for Leopard Boot Camp. I can't do the reformat in the OS because, the OS itself isn't there!
And I can't be bothered to move that old PC out of storage, set it up, open nLite, build another copy of XP SP2, unset up and then move it back just for XP SP2.
I just Googled 'Mac OS X NTFS Driver' and bought the Paragon NTFS driver. I need it later anyways.
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