macfidelity

Per Default wird eine Windows-Partition auf einem Intel Mac unter Mac OS X auch gemountet, d.h. zugreifbar gemacht. Dies erfolgt sofern es sich um einen NTFS-Partition handelt mit reinen Lese-Rechten, was für manche Zwecks ausreichend sollte ,aber natürlich nicht optimal ist. Ich selber verwende in solchen Fällen gerne MacFuse & NTFS-3g um Schreib-Rechte auf NTFS-Partitionen zu erhalten, aber das ist ein anderes Thema, welches ich hier und hier schon beschrieben habe.

Andere Anwender gehen einen anderen Weg und wollen die Windows Partition unter Mac OS X erst garnicht mounten, kann man machen, so richtig gute Gründe dafür fallen mir für den Großtteil der User aber um ehrlich zu sein nicht ein.

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If you need / want to backup your Windows XP /Vista bootcamp partition you should take a look at the application WinClone.

Just to clear the most important point: thats a mac application =) and its 10.5 only which makes sense cause of the beta status of bootcamp in 10.4

Feature-List:

• Requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) New
• Clone either FAT32 or NTFS partitions New
• Mount images in the Finder New
• Fixes boot issues automatically New
• New preference window to fine tune your cloning New
• Source partition is not changed when cloning (except for removal of pagefile.sys) New
• Clone Windows XP or Windows Vista with ease.
• Clone to your Bootcamp partition either on a separate drive or on the same that contains your Mac OS X partition.
• Creates image documents that can be stored on any media and double-clicked to open in WinClone.
• Verbose logging so you know what is going on
• Built on the open source ntfstools, which are included in Winclone, so you don’t have to install anything else.
• Fast: Restore a 10 GB image in less than 10 minutes.
• Create a Bootcamp partition from within Winclone.
• Do it all from the boot drive: You don’t need to boot from a Firewire drive to clone the Windows partition.
• Clean and uncomplicated interface

Links:

• WinClone
• Apple Inc. - Bootcamp Manual

Some weeks ago i tested the package macfuse & fink’s ntfs-3g to get a basic write-support for OSX working on my Mac Pro.

Today lets do it much easier and much better

Get yourself the following packages:

• MacFuse 0.4
• NTFS-3G.dmg

Install MacFuse first, then install the ntfs-3g package. Reboot your mac.

If you have an NTFS-partition connected to your mac you will recognize some small changes:

• Icon changes from default HDD-Icon to Network-device-Icon
• You should have read & write support now on that drive

Big thanks to the MacFuse project and for sure to those guys from the ntfs-3g project.

The big advantage to my first attempt is clear and easy:

• Less installation trouble (i.e.fink is not needed)
• Drives are auto-mounted with ntfs-3g driver

Nice

I always wanted full NTFS support in OS-X, seems like it is working now. Be default OS-X can read from NTFS-drives but not write to them.

You need the following tools:

• MacFuse (Core)
• Fink

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