[X4U] Can't Write to USB Drive

Charles Schneider schneidr at umich.edu
Thu Sep 16 12:01:37 PDT 2010


Macfuse is your answer

Natively, a mac can only read NTFS disks, not write to them.   Install  
Macfuse.

Charlie



On Sep 16, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Neil wrote:

> I copied some of my friends home movies from VHS into iPod  
> compatible mp4.  He brought me his portable USB hard drive from his  
> Windows pc to me, but I got some kind of "can't write to this  
> volume" error message when I tried to copy his videos to his drive.   
> I have no trouble reading the contents of his drive.  It has his  
> iTunes music on it so he can take it with him to the bar where he  
> DJs.  The drive had plenty of free space and I didn't use any kind  
> of DRM on the video files.  Does anybody have any idea what is going  
> on and what's the easiest way I can give him his videos?  I thought  
> it would be easier to copy the files to his hard drive rather than  
> burning a bunch of data DVDs.  Thanks.
>
> Neil
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