Am I destined to stare at the standard 3.5"HDD icon in Mac OS for my windows boot disk for ever? I can't figure out how to edit that icon; guessing it has to do with the volume being NTFS? I can ...

One of the irritating things about using Boot Camp, especially if you’ve formatted your Windows volume using NTFS (which is mandatory for Vista), is the awkwardness of transferring files between your ...

Mac shipments may be outpacing the industry as a whole, but if you need a reminder it’s still a Windows world, look no further than new hard drives. The majority are formatted for PCs, requiring them ...

Compatibility with Microsoft's NTFS filesystem is sometimes necessary for people who use either separate PCs or Boot Camp. While Apple offers a driver to read NTFS volumes, by default it will not ...

So I had a drive failure; big deal, there's a current backup available on another drive. (Not business, ergo nightly offsite backup to tape is a little much.)<BR><BR>But, when I go to that other drive ...

Selecting the right NTFS cluster size is key to balancing storage scalability, efficiency and performance when expanding a Windows volume. In my previous article, I explained that I recently found ...

To extend a volume, unallocated space must exist, and the unallocated space must be adjacent to the target partition. In addition, the partition style of the target volume must be in NTFS format. The ...

Do you have an external hard drive formatted to NTFS that you would like to use with your Mac? You can do so without using any third-party software. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...