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?
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?
Perhaps unmounting the drive in windows before restarting would keep it from happening?
If you use Parallels rather than bootcamp, the interface between Win7 and OS X will be seamless.
Is your external disk NTFS formatted or HFS+?
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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.
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.
Check it. If it is NTFS then it is clear why you do have read only rights.
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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.
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.
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.