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1. 2 After the installation package is extracted you can choose whether to install deinstall the driver or read the license agreement Click NTFS for Mac OS X 6 0 to install the driver NTFS for Mac Ds x 60 pkg License rtf Uninstall NTFS for Mac O5 X 6 0 3 In order to actually start up installation of the driver you need to confirm your intention by clicking the Continue button This package contains a program that determines if the software can be installed Are you sure you want to continue If you re nat sure about the source of this package click Cancel to prevent it from running the program and installing the software 4 The setup wizard contains a standard user interface and set of installation steps to easily go through the process of installation The Welcome page informs that the application is being installed Click Continue Copyright 1994 2007 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved NTFS for Mac OS X 7 User Manual Welcome to the Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 6 0 Installer Welcome to the Mac OS X Installation Program You will be 6 Introduction guided through the steps necessary to install this software License NOTE To use the software you have to restart your i Serial Number after the installation is completed i Select Destination e Installation Type e Install i Finish Up GoBack amp Coptinue 5 On the next page you can see the Par
2. Universal File System Driver technology our driver enables to provide fast and transparent access to NTFS partitions as Mac OS X native thus achieving an unprecedented high level of performance the same as for HFS Plus and in some cases even better Mac OS X programs can process such partitions without any restrictions browse contents read and modify files copy and create new files and folders etc Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X comes in one universal binary edition including a standard DMG disk image with an installation package to automatically substitute the Mac OS X default driver read only for Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X In this manual you will find the answers to many of the technical questions which might arise while using the product Features Overview This chapter dwells upon key benefits and technical highlights of the product Key Features Well let us list some of the product key features Extremely easy to use as it requires no any additional configuration after installation Fast and transparent access to any NTFS partition under Mac OS X Advanced driver engine to guarantee reliable operation and stability even under heavy workload Unprecedented high level of performance thanks to the Paragon UFSD technology Complete support of Mac OS X 10 4 Tiger both G4 and x86 architectures Advanced support of the HFS Plus file system features to guarantee data consistency POSIX file attributes Hardlinks Symlinks Data
3. Click the Verify buttons to test the disk or permissions without changing anything NTFS Volume Ta repair your startup disk start up from your Mac OS X Install disc CD or DVD then choose Utilities gt Disk Utility f Verify Disk F Repair Disk You can also carry out these operations from the command line a Launch the command line Applications gt Utilities gt Terminal a Type in fsck_ntfs to get help Last login Wed Oct 31 B6 28 43 on console Welcome to Darwin lagnajeet pradhons computer Paragon feck ntfs uage fzck ntfz q device fsck ntfs p device feck ntfs n y g device n verify disk but don t repair q quick check returns clean dirty or failure y a repair disk E g fsck ntfs m dev dizkB s3 Lagnajeet pradhoans coaputer Paragoni Use fsck ntfs n device to check disk integrity Use fsck ntfs y device to fix disk errors 2 Format NTFS Volumes There are actually two ways to format NTFS volumes under Mac OS X but only from the command line a Launch the command line Applications gt Utilities gt Terminal Q Type in diskutil to get help Copyright 1994 2007 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved NTFS for Mac OS X 13 lagnajeet prodhons computer Paragon diskutil Disk Utility Tool Utility to manage local disks volumes Most options require root access to the device Usage dizkutil eters optiontz verbs is one of
4. Fork and Resource Fork etc Advanced support of the NTFS file system features to guarantee data consistency sparse compressed files partitions etc a Support of non Roman characters DOOCODL E Supported Media Large hard disks up to 1 5 TB tested 2 TB limit in theory IDE SCSI and SATA hard disks FireWire 1 e IEEE1394 USB 1 0 USB 2 0 hard disks ZIP and Jazz disks PC card storage devices all types of flash memory etc Getting Started In this chapter you will find all the information necessary to get the product ready to use DoOoOodt Copyright 1994 2007 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved NTFS for Mac OS X 4 User Manual Distribution Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X is distributed in two ways a Boxed package from Paragon Technology GmbH and resellers Q Downloadable package over the Internet at the company s web site The two contain a standard DMG disk image with an installation package to automatically substitute the Mac OS X native driver read only for Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X Thus in order to get the product ready for use you need to install it first see Installing the Program If you want to download an update upgrade of the product it will be in form of the downloadable installation package Registration Paragon Technology GmbH provides a wide range of online services through its web service KB Knowledge Base a Registration of new users a Registration of pu
5. the following List information info inact unacuntDisk appunti sk enab LeJournal disabLleJournal verifyVolume repaireVolume verif yPernissions repairPermizsions repair SsPermissions erasebpisk erate Vo ume reformat eratedpt ical zeroDisk rondombD i k securetrase rezizeVolume partitionDizk creategAID destrovRAID CcheckREATD enabLegAID convertRAID Frucht d T List the partitions of a disk Get information on a disk or volume Unzount single volume Unmount an entire disk all volumez Eject a disk Mount a single volume Hount cn entire disk all mountable volumez Rename a volume Enable HFS journaling on a mounted HFS volume Disable HFS journaling on a mounted HFS volume Verify the structure of a volume Repair the structure of volume Verify the permissions of a volume Repair the permissions of a volume Repair the permissions for the current Classic boot volume Erase on existing disk removing all volumes Erase on existing volume Reformat an existing volume Erase en optical media CD RW DVD FM etc Erase a disk writing zeros to the media Erase a disk writing random data to the media Securely erase a disk or freespace on a volume resize g wolume incregsi or decregzi its size 3 ng reg re Partition a disk removing all volumes Create a RAID set on multiple disks Destroy an existing RAID zet Check a RAID set fo
6. Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X User Manual NTFS for Mac OS X 2 User Manual CONTENTS l trod ctOM sispaspa aeia a aa ara a 3 Features OV CRY IOW c asir areara EEE EEs 3 Key Features oiiire a E T AE E TERA 3 SUD ORCC Medi Ascesa E EEEE EE ONAE AEAEE O E NEEE E OPES 3 Getine Started e 3 IB aad eS 4 curie 4 Downloading Updates UP Srades EET dadenssesceessusooaaceaesevnsis dadesssesesssseaassedseses 5 Contacting Paragon Technology GmbH ssssseccccccsssessceccocossssscccecoosssseceeccocsssssececososssssseecsossssssscecesssssssssee 5 idum 5 ris Gable th DEIVOE 4 11 sess cata arora e sess eei se Uoc edd ie E E Db ev de Eo ede ei Diod desee dodb elec i oci eus 5 Usine the Driv OF eM 10 Demnstalhne the Driver sssini EE E 14 E A eR A E E E S E E EE O 15 SITAM ESL RET 16 Copyright 1994 2007 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved NTFS for Mac OS X 3 User Manual Introduction Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X is a low level file system driver specially developed to bridge incompatibility of Windows and Mac OS X by providing full read write access to any version of the NTFS file system Windows NT 4 0 2000 XP 2003 Vista under Mac OS X Based on the Paragon UFSD
7. a specific form such as icons the shapes of windows definitions of menus and their contents and application code machine code Symbolic Link Symlink or Soft Link consists of a special type of file that serves as a reference to another file or directory Unlike a hard link which points directly to data and represents another name for the same file a symbolic link contains a path which identifies the target of the symbolic link Thus when the user removes a symbolic link the file to which it pointed remains unaffected Symbolic links may refer to files even on other mounted file systems UFSD Universal File System Driver technology developed by Paragon Software provides full read write access to the so called popular file systems NTFS FAT16 32 Ext2 Ex3FS etc under operating systems that cannot do it by default e g NTFS for Linux Ext2 Ex3FS for Windows etc This technology is based on the direct access to physical drives and buffered Input Output access that 1s why it makes it possible to process unsupported partitions browse contents read and modify files copy and create new files and folders etc while keeping an acceptable level of performance Known Issues There is only yet one issue discovered and it in no way will harm your file system Actually it has to do with the Finder application and 1s revealed from under Mac OS X 10 4 6 up to 10 4 10 on Intel based Macs So when trying to create a second folder in the r
8. agon license agreement Please read it carefully and then click Continue You can also save or print the agreement by using the appropriate buttons Software License Agreement English m Introduction ui e I 6 License End User License Agreement i Serial Number B Select Destination e installation Type B Install e Finish Up The software product accompanying this End User License Agreement Software and ali affliated materials including program descriptions and instruction manuals A Documentation are copyrighted Scope of this agreement amp the licensing of the Sotware and apenan gli as th ees MD cra Pi 1h ey gr IY 6 In order to continue installation you are to accept all the conditions stated in the agreement by clicking the Agree button To continue installing the software you must agree to the terms of the software license agreement Click Agree to continue or click Disagree to cancel the installation Disagree 7 Since NTFS for Mac OS X 6 0 1s a commercially distributed product you need to purchase it to get registration info Still there is the possibility to try the driver for free during a 10 day period Copyright 1994 2007 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved NTFS for Mac OS X Introduction License Serial Number B Select Destination B Installation Type i install e Finish Up Serial Number Ouse 10 days trial version f have a ser
9. can now carry out any operation on an NTFS volume like a Transfer data m Goats 9 items to NTFS Volume 317 KE o 950 KB About 5 seconds Mac Partition me Information a Modify data System Volume My Projects information TP NTFS Volume System Volume CET Information Open Get Info Move to Trasn s Duplicate Make Alias Just whatever you feel like doing Extra Functionality Besides providing full read write access to NTFS partitions under Mac OS X our driver offers a number of additional features Copyright 1994 2007 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved NTFS for Mac OS X 12 User Manual 1 Check Repair NTFS Volumes During installation of our driver the setup wizard automatically adds to Mac OS X Disk Utility the possibility to check integrity and fix errors on any type of NTFS To do that please follow the steps below a Launch Disk Utility Applications gt Utilities gt Disk Utility a Select an NTFS volume and click on the Verify Disk button to check it for integrity or the Repair Disk button to fix errors if any Erase RAID Restore 6 0 GB VMware Virtual I E Mac Partition To repair a disk or volume select its icon in the list on the left and click Repair Disk 40 0 GB VMware Virtual To repair disk permission problems on a disk ar volume that has Mac OS X installed zm select its icon and click Repair Disk Permissions WINXP a
10. eld Click the Submit button That is all You will receive a confirmation by E mail Downloading Updates Upgrades Downloading of updates upgrades can be fulfilled in the following way 1 Enter the Paragon Software web service 2 Inthe menu click the Download Update to see what updates are available for you 3 Select the desired update and click the Download button Contacting Paragon Technology GmbH If you have any questions about the company products please do not hesitate to contact Paragon Technology GmbH Service Contact Visit Paragon GmbH web www paragon software com site Revi x SEISA amp updates kb paragon software com web service Knowl B owledge ase amp kb paragon software com Technical Support Pre sale information sales paragon software com System Requirements To use Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X you should install it first But before that make sure your computer meets the following minimum system requirements Q Operating systems Mac OS X 10 4 6 Tiger or higher Q PowerPC G4 or x86 a 128 MB of RAM Installing the Driver To install Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X simply do the following Copyright 1994 2007 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved NTFS for Mac OS X 6 User Manual 1 Launch the installation process by clicking on the supplied DMG disk image in our case it 1s NTF SforMacOSX6 0 dmg H a Network E Mac Partition 1M winXP NTFSforMacOSX6 0 dmg I T I
11. gon Software Group All rights reserved NTFS for Mac OS X 15 User Manual NTFS for Mac 05 X 6 0 pkg A mcr uo leel Page c k omi lee nit aiik od wu u nod hen mei p qa eed Ferdi eai im da ee el A Prog nada iia Aan cuna AMITTIT Bip SS rhi 4 a ee fies eh r License rtf Uninstall NTFS for Mac O5 3 The setup wizard will ask confirmation before removing the driver from the system so please click the Uninstal button Are you sure you want to uninstall NTFS for Mac OS X 6 0 The restart will be required at the end of the uninstallation pracess Cancel Uninstall 4 On the next page enter the root user password if any to accomplish the operation NTFS for Mac OS X requires that you type your password Name Mac 0 5 X u se r Password sssss 5 Click Restart to finish the deinstallation process Glossary Hard Link is a reference or pointer to physical data on a storage volume On most file systems all named files are hard links The name associated with the file is simply a label that refers the operating system to the actual data As such more than one name can be associated with the same data Though called by different names any changes made will affect the actual data regardless of how the file is called at a later time Hard links can only refer to data that exists on the same file system HFS Plus File System HFS or Mac OS Extended is an updated version of HFS Hierarch
12. ial number Please enter your name and serial number Name Paragon Serial number nememet 00 Mame Mac 05 X User Requested right system privilege admin w Details Application Installer User Manual 9 The Select a Destination page allows the user to select where it is required to install the driver Introduction License Serial Number Select Destination Installation Type e Install Finish Up Select a Destination Select a destination volume to install the Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 6 0 software _ Mac Partition 6 0GB 2 7GE Free You have chosen to install this software o Partition Copyright 1994 2007 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved NTFS for Mac OS X 9 User Manual After you have selected the required destination click Continue 10 On the Installation Type page click nstall to continue Easy Install on Mac Partition Introduction Click Upgrade to perform a basic installation of this software package on the volume Mac t Serial Number Partition E p 6 License Select Destination Installation Type GoBack Upgrade 11 The next page shows the overall progress of the installation Installing Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 6 0 O Introduction License Serial Number Select Destination 6 Installation Type Installing Paragon NTFS for Mac Os X 6 0 Install _ i a r ln d e Fi Confiqur
13. ical File System and is applied nowadays as the primary file system for Macintosh computers Unlike HFS it supports much larger files block addresses are 32 bit length instead of 16 bit and uses Unicode instead of Mac OS Roman for naming the items files folders Besides it permits filenames up to 255 UTF 16 characters in length and n forked files similar to NTFS though almost no software takes advantage of forks Copyright 1994 2007 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved NTFS for Mac OS X 16 User Manual other than the data fork and resource fork One of the crucial improvements of this file system 1s of course the possibility to use a full 32 bit allocation mapping table that resulted in much less wasted space and more files NTFS File System is an advanced file system that provides performance security reliability and advanced features that are not found in any version of FAT For example NTFS guarantees volume consistency by using standard transaction logging and recovery techniques If a system fails NTFS uses its log file and checkpoint information to restore consistency of the file system In its later versions NTFS also provides advanced features such as file and folder permissions encryption disk quotas and compression Resource Fork is a construct of the Mac OS operating system used to store structured data in a file alongside unstructured data stored within the data fork A resource fork stores information in
14. ing Installation 12 On the Finish Up page click Restart to accomplish the installation process and restart the computer Copyright 1994 2007 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved NTFS for Mac OS X 10 User Manual Introduction License Serial Number Select Destination Installation Type Install 6 Finish Up Click Restart to finish in stalling t Go Back jJ Using the Driver Once the driver has been installed you obtain full read write access to any type of NTFS as if it is Mac OS X native Mac OS X default driver Mac OS X Paragon driver eee O0 WinXP Info Modified 22 Apr 09 12 24 PM Cmm Modified Today at 12 19 AM Spotlight Lommaents General E General Created Created Modified Wednesday 22 April 2009 Modified Today at 12 19 AM 12 24 PM Format Windows NT Filesystem Format Windows NT Filesystem Capacity 1 46 GB Capacity 1 46 GB Available 639 MB Available 837 3 MB Used 653 3 MB on disk Used 660 9 MB on disk 69 12 81 408 bytes 69 30 52 416 bytes Color abe x amp o 6 e 9 Color lbeb x amp D o 0 9 59 9 E 3l _ More Info Dena Rae P Name amp Extension b Name amp Extension w Pd F Preview NTFS volumes Mac has now got full access to WIES volumes Copyright 1994 2007 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved NTFS for Mac OS X 11 User Manual Unlike Mac OS X default driver you
15. oot directory with the Finder application the first folder will take the name of the second one To avoid this nuisance you ve got two options Q Unmount and then again mount your NTFS partition Q Update your Mac OS X up to 10 4 11 or higher Copyright 1994 2007 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved
16. r errors Convert a disk to a degraded RAID mirror set Convert a RAID 1 x pre Tiger to a RAID 2 x Tiger L n um Fu dub i dH E mg E i Ful iy i User Manual Use diskutil eraseVolume NTFS Disk Label device to format the required partition to NTFS Or Launch the command line Applications gt Utilities gt Terminal Type in newfs_ntfs to get help Last login Wed Oct 31 86 23 15 on ttypi Melcome to Darwin lagnajeet pradhanz computer Paragont newfs ntfs Missing special device Create an NTFS volume ono user specified block device Usage newfs ntfs options device Label Specifies the volume label Performs a quick format er Files created on the new volume will be compressed by defaul Overrides the default allocation unit size Default settings are strongly recommended for general use NTFS supports 512 1824 2048 4096 3192 16K 32K 64K NTFS compression is not supported for allocation unit sizes f Force to format without question h Display this help E g newfs ntfs g v WindowsXP dev diskBs3 lagnajeet prodhans computer Paragont fj Copyright 1994 2007 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved NTFS for Mac OS X 14 User Manual Use newfs_ntfs q device to quickly format the required partition to NTFS Typical Application Cases You might face various situations where Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X will be the most preferable way out Let s just consider a little closer t
17. rchased products for registered users a Available around the clock downloading center where registered users can get product updates upgrades as well as all the necessary documentation a Downloadable free 10 day trial version and open documentation for all users To enter the Knowledge Base please visit the web site http kb paragon software com To Register as a New User To register as a new user simply do the following 1 Run the Internet browser and visit the page http kb paragon software com 2 Click the New User button 3 On the renewed page select your country and language 4 Fill out the registration form To Register a New Product If you are a registered user and would like to register Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X simply do the following 1 Click Login in the menu 2 Onthe Login page in the User Name field enter an E mail which you have used for registration Copyright 1994 2007 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved NTFS for Mac OS X 5 User Manual 3 Inthe Password field enter the password you received with registration confirmation Click the Submit button 4 Ifthe user name and password are valid you will enter the system 5 In the opened menu click the Product Registration item to see a list of all registered products with a new registration form 6 Select Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 6 0 from the list of products 7 Type in your product serial number in the Serial Number fi
18. wo of them 1 You ve got at the disposal a dual boot system of Mac OS X and Windows and it will be really convenient to get a full fledged access read write to Windows NTFS partitions under Mac OS X To tackle the issue please follow the steps below start up your Mac OS X Install Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X Reboot you computer into Mac OS X once again Enjoy NTFS under Mac OS X D DLDZSZL 2 You need to transfer data files over 4GB in size from your Mac PC to a Windows based computer using an external hard drive FAT32 file system that is supported by both systems cannot be used as it doesn t support files over 4GB To tackle the issue please follow the steps below start up your Mac OS X Install Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X Reboot you computer into Mac OS X once again Connect an external drive to Mac PC and format it to NTFS Copy files you need from your Mac PC to the external drive Connect the external drive to a Windows PC Copy files from the external drive to the Windows PC DOODODDOU DL Deinstalling the Driver To deinstall Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X simply do the following 1 Open the installation package by clicking on the supplied DMG disk image in our case it 1s NTF SforMacOS X6 0 dmg lt gt CENE CA network A Mac Partition d ink m WINA 2 After the installation package is extracted click Uninstall NTFS for Mac OS X 6 0 to deinstall the driver Copyright 1994 2007 Para

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