Possible to read an NTFS formatted external hard drive on an iMac?

[CKDragon]

So I just came home for the holidays and I have some home videos I've captured and want to put on my brother's relatively new iMac his musician friends talked him into.

When I start connect my external hard disk (NTFS) to any PC, I go to My Computer -> Manage -> Disk Management -> Reactivate. When I connect it to the iMac, a disk utility comes up that appears to have First-Aid, Erase, Restore, and RAID options. I can't seem to find anything within this utility that will allow me to simply activate the drive for regular use without re-partitioning it. I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable about OS X will be able to tell me if what I'm trying to do possible or if I'm just spinning my wheels. Thanks a lot for your time.

This is the first that it's ever been connected to the internet, so if it helps, I'm currently downloading the OS X 10.4 software update.

 

[SKORPI0]

Drive should be formatted as a NTFS basic drive, not dynamic. You mount the drive using Disk Utility.

 

[CKDragon]

Originally posted by: SKORPI0
Drive should be formatted as a NTFS basic drive, not dynamic. You mount the drive using Disk Utility.

Thanks, it is currently formatted as dynamic, but I managed to solve the problem by just transferring them to a PC and sharing them on the network.

I think of these things only after I bother people on AT. Thanks a lot for the reply, though.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: SKORPI0
Drive should be formatted as a NTFS basic drive, not dynamic. You mount the drive using Disk Utility.

OS X should mount it for you. The only time I've had to mount it myself was mucking around with macfuse+ntfs3g.

 

[Kadarin]

My MBP (running Leopard) mounts and reads the NTFS partition I use for Boot Camp without my having to do anything.

 

[Tegeril]

NTFS is fine on OS X when it isn't dynamic.