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    Is it possible to view contents of windows partition while in Mac OS?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by john_ri, Mar 5, 2009.

  1. john_ri

    john_ri Notebook Enthusiast

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    I assume it's impossible to view the other partition tho, eh?
     
    john_ri, Mar 5, 2009
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    Yes, you can view it.
     
    frocco, Mar 5, 2009
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    john_ri Notebook Enthusiast

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    so files can be retrieved from the windows partition while in the mac partition?
     
    john_ri, Mar 5, 2009
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    blazezaku Notebook Guru

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    yes,as long as the partition space is in fat32
     
    blazezaku, Mar 5, 2009
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    excellent! thanks
     
    john_ri, Mar 5, 2009
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    Seshan Rawrrr!

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    It does not have to be and I would recommend against fat32 since it's crap. You can either use a VMware or parrelels witch will be expensive or you can use Macfuse http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
     
    Seshan, Mar 5, 2009
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    Even if the partition is NTFS, you can still read from it, you just can't write. (you can read and write to NTFS partitions if you install NTFS3G)
     
    Chris27, Mar 5, 2009
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