Drive Cross Compatibility

[Wyn]

I have PT 9 installed on a dell laptop.
I have a studio full of Mac initialized drives.
Twice now I have plugged my Mac drives into the Dell (running windows 7 professional) and thought everything was fine but after a short time working found that the drives (the Mac drives) and the sessions were corrupted.

Seems that playing back the sessions was not a serious problem but after some serious editing, problems began to crop up and finally the session and disk was corrupted.

Dumb as it may sound, can I use a Mac initialized firewire drive on a Windows 7 PC running PT 9 and do serious disk intensive work?

Thanks!

[stevedemena]

Originally Posted by Wyn

I have PT 9 installed on a dell laptop.
I have a studio full of Mac initialized drives.
Twice now I have plugged my Mac drives into the Dell (running windows 7 professional) and thought everything was fine but after a short time working found that the drives (the Mac drives) and the sessions were corrupted.

Seems that playing back the sessions was not a serious problem but after some serious editing, problems began to crop up and finally the session and disk was corrupted.

Dumb as it may sound, can I use a Mac initialized firewire drive on a Windows 7 PC running PT 9 and do serious disk intensive work?

Thanks!

Short answer: No.

There doesn't seem to be many well-known read/write drivers for Windows as there are Mac drivers to R/W NTFS (MacFuse, etc).

[Wyn]

Thanks. So what I'm seeing and the only reason it APPEARS the drives are working under Windows 7 is due to the drive support provided by Pro Tools? Which I'm now assuming does NOT support extensive read/write functionality on a Mac OS Extended drive running under Windows 7.

What's the old saying... if it seems to good to be true it probably is?

Good thing I was only trying to get a little work done while I watched the pelican squadrons hunt the seaside coves.


Thanks

[albee1952]

When you installed Pro Tools, did you check the box for HFS+ drive compatibility? I have had some success with that as it installs a lite version of MacDrive, but I get the best results by copying the session folders from the Mac-formatted drives onto one of my internal(NTFS) recording drives.

[TOM@METRO]

Originally Posted by albee1952

When you installed Pro Tools, did you check the box for HFS+ drive compatibility? I have had some success with that as it installs a lite version of MacDrive, but I get the best results by copying the session folders from the Mac-formatted drives onto one of my internal(NTFS) recording drives.

Right. I even have the full MacDrive, but using an NTFS drive with Windows has proven much better.