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If you are under 10.6.5 or later and Windows Vista or above, you can format your memory stick or usb hard drive to exFAT, a newer version of FAT with large file support and almost unlimited partition size. It has no permissions to speak of so it's perfect to transfer files around.
Older systems will not see it however.
I use this file system on my external ...
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At the moment, the only free way for NTFS write access without using abandoned software is using NTFS-3G along with FUSE for OS X. There's a guide for that in the FUSE for OS X wiki.
If you need NTFS writing a lot you might be better off using Tuxera or Paragon, both commercial but more faster and more bulletproof solutions.
As pointed out in the comments, ...
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Try NTFS-FREE, works for me on ML:
This program allows MacOSX to access Microsoft NTFS formatted harddrives connected by USB port. A modified version of the original Linux code, this program is packaged as a easy-to-use installer so that normal users can install it without hassle
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsfree/
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Fuse4x + Ntfs-3g works on OS X Lion. All freeware.
Install Homebrew.
In Terminal, type brew install Fuse4x.
Next, type brew install ntfs-3g.
Type brew info fuse4x-kext . Enter the 2 lines of $ sudo code separately at the start of the text given.
Type brew info ntfs-3g . Enter the 2 lines of code separately after the line "To replace the default Mac OSX ...
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There are many ways to remove .DS_Store files; it really depends on what your exact needs are for the method you decide to use. To automatically remove them when you login/logout would be quite different from ejecting a disk, since it's a completely different process. You can disallow .DS_store for from being allowed to write to network disks, etc. by ...
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FAT32 isn't up to faithfully preserving Mac permissions, links and metadata. If you cannot repartition the drive as GUID/HFS+ it would be best to make a Disk Image on the FAT and back up to that image.
If your drive was 120G and had at least 10G free space you should be fine with settings like this to create the image. The sparse image is nice since it only ...
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You have five options:
Network transfer through FTP or
Samba directly to a NTFS drive on
the windows machine
External drive with NTFS filesystem, which of course is the
one of the best ways to do it on an
external drive, [edit-add] though you would need some additional software on the Mac's end to be able to write to the NTFS partition.
Multipart archive, ...
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From the Boot Camp FAQ:
Boot Camp Assistant works only with an Intel-based Mac that has a single hard disk partition
Boot Camp won't work with your multiple partitions, unless the partitioning was done by Boot Camp itself.
You'll probably need to undo the partition to use Boot Camp, or use one of the many ways discussed online for installing Windows ...
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The format process can be handled differently depending on what the OS actually accomplish by during the format.
Formatting should leave a clean and cleared file system. This can be done very fast by only clearing the file allocation table (FAT). This means writing to a very limited blocks /sectors on the disk.
Alternatively formatting may include clearing ...
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You could try running SpinRite on the disk, then trying again to get the files off.
SpinRite (among other things) talks the drive's internal error correction into working better so Windows or the iPod's OS can more-easily read the files.
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Is it possible? Yes
Based on your comment, why?
VMWare Fusion runs Windows 7 virtually. Therefore you don't need a partition for it, the OS will simply be installed in a Virtual File on your current HDD, which will grow based on how much space it is using up to the maximum set when you created the virtual machine. Fusion only allows you to use a partition ...
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