[X4U] Tvisto Hard Drive

[Philip J Robar]

On Mar 12, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Neil wrote:

> I have the Tvisto 3500 multi-media hard drive. It comes pre- 
> formatted [as NTFS]. I only have permission to read, not write to  
> the drive. Of course, that makes the drive useless. I need to copy  
> media files to the drive so I can play them on my home theater. So,  
> how do I change the permission? Do I have to reformat the drive to  
> HFS+? The docs say that the drive supports this.

Either reformat, probably your best option if you don't need MS  
compatibility, or look into MacFuse, http://code.google.com/p/ 
macfuse/, which has brings support for many alien file systems to OS X.

BTW, I found this information by doing a web search on "OS X ntfs".

Phil