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Restarting Mac from BootCamp almost always makes External disk read only.

I have an iMac running 10.7.3.  I have a BC partition running Windows 7 32-bit. I have a Firewire connected external LaCie hard drive.


Almost every time I come back to OS X from running Windows and check the Info on the drive it says that I can only read, even though I can see that my user has RW permissions.  And I know that the read only thing is true since I get an error from Time Machine when it tried to write to the drive. My fix is to log out and  back in and when then I do Info, it says that I can both read and write and TM will run OK.  Any thoughts?
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jhyiesla

8/22/2022 - Mon
design725

Perhaps unmounting the drive in windows before restarting would keep it from happening?
Martin Liss

If you use Parallels rather than bootcamp, the interface between Win7 and OS X will be seamless.
noxcho

Is your external disk NTFS formatted or HFS+?
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jhyiesla

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Design 725 - hadn't considered that; will give it a try.

MartinLiss - you are correct and I am a big fan of Parallels and VMware Fusion, but I like the extra boost I get running Windows bare metal when I am trying to play a game, which is the main reason I run BC.

Noxcho - can't remember for sure; think it's HFS  since I mainly use it for Mac stuff - have to check it out tonight.
noxcho

Check it. If it is NTFS then it is clear why you do have read only rights.
jhyiesla

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The external disk is the  OS X journaled format and there is no way to "eject" it from Windows before rebooting. And I doubt that it's some rights issue since merely logging out and back in fixes the problem 100% of the time.
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noxcho

Wait, you are using HFS+ disk in Windows, right?
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I have MacDrive on my Windows BC environment.
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Not opposed to trying a new product, but if I can write under Windows and simply logging back out once OS X has restarted fixes the problem, I would have some serious reservations that MacDrive is the problem. Once the Mac reboots, OS X should not have any knowledge of MacDrive. And if a reboot doesn't disconnect any tendrils that MacDrive has, I'd doubt that a simple log out and in would.  

I've even tried shutting down the Mac instead of rebooting out of BC and the external drive still does the same thing.
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I never did figure this out and I didn't want to buy the new disk reader as suggested by the expert. Since I can "fix" the problem merely by logging out and in; that's a reasonable solution.