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Can't have both encrypted Mac's HFS+ & MS W7 EE SP1's BitLocker NTFS?
Hi.
I'm having problems with my 2 MS partitions in my external USB 2 TB WD Green HDD. I wanted to have 2 encrypted partitions (W7 EE SP1's BitLocker NTFS and HFS[Time Machine and manual Mac files]) and an unencrypted FAT (tried both FAT32 and exFAT). I had no problems (mak/creat)ing them. The problem is that Mac OS X v10.10.5 (Yosemite) thinks I have 2 FAT drives (only 1 should exist while other is NTFS (assuming cannot be read due to its BitLocker encryption which is fine to me)). If I connect it to a W7 laptop/notebook, then only FAT can be seen. I tried reformatting the encrypted BitLocker NTFS to unencrypted FAT in Mac OS X's Disk Utility which can be seen in Mac, but W7 does't see it. I tried letting W7's Disk Management make this unallocated partition to a new simple volume (NTFS or exFAT -- tried both), but it said "The operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk(s) to dynamic disk(s). If you convert the disk(s) to dynamic, you will not be able to stat installed operating systems from any volume on the disk(s) (except the current boot volume). Are you sure you want to continue?" I tried Yes and its Virtual Disk Manager said "The operation is not supported by the object." I tried deleting all partitions and told Mac OS X's Disk Utility to recreate the 3 partitions (unencrypted HFS+ & 2 MS FAT partitions) from scratch. Everything was fine when I checked between machines. I told W7 to format a FAT partition into NTFS with BitLocker encryption. After it was done, I rechecked with Mac OS X. Partitions were fine (yes, I know Mac can't read BitLocker encryptions so that partition stays hidden). I told Mac OS X to do a very long encrypted Time Machine backup and manually copy some files into this encrypted HFS+ partition for hours. After that, I went back to W7 and it can't see my BitLocker partition (unallocated)! http://i.imgur.com/tJ5wWz6.gif and http://i.imgur.com/KBwAEct.gif and for my 2 screen (shot/capture)s from both machine with the same external USB HDD connected. What's going on? Does having 2 different encrypted partitions not work with each other? Or am I doing something wrong? Thank you in advance. -- Merry Christmas/Season's Greetings/ Holidays & May The Force Be With U! Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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Can't have both encrypted Mac's HFS+ & MS W7 EE SP1'sBitLocker NTFS?
Ant wrote:
Hi. I'm having problems with my 2 MS partitions in my external USB 2 TB WD Green HDD. Why bother with that rather than simply running Windows in a virtual machine with an associated virtual drive in the OS X file system? -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR |
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Can't have both encrypted Mac's HFS+ & MS W7 EE SP1's BitLocker NTFS?
I'm having problems with my 2 MS partitions in my external USB 2 TB WD
Green HDD. Why bother with that rather than simply running Windows in a virtual machine with an associated virtual drive in the OS X file system? Because I want to share the drive between multiple physical machines. -- Merry Christmas/Season's Greetings/ Holidays & May The Force Be With U! Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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Can't have both encrypted Mac's HFS+ & MS W7 EE SP1'sBitLocker NTFS?
Ant wrote:
I'm having problems with my 2 MS partitions in my external USB 2 TB WD Green HDD. Why bother with that rather than simply running Windows in a virtual machine with an associated virtual drive in the OS X file system? Because I want to share the drive between multiple physical machines. Have fun with that. A virtual machine is far better for my needs. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR |
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Can't have both encrypted Mac's HFS+ & MS W7 EE SP1's BitLockerNTFS?
On 2015-12-25 11:47, Ant wrote:
I'm having problems with my 2 MS partitions in my external USB 2 TB WD Green HDD. Why bother with that rather than simply running Windows in a virtual machine with an associated virtual drive in the OS X file system? Because I want to share the drive between multiple physical machines. You should leave attribution in posts. -- "But I am somehow extraordinarily lucky, for a guy with ****ty luck." ..Harrison Ford, Rolling Stone - 2015-12-02 |
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Can't have both encrypted Mac's HFS+ & MS W7 EE SP1's BitLocker NTFS?
In comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Alan Browne wrote:
On 2015-12-25 11:47, Ant wrote: I'm having problems with my 2 MS partitions in my external USB 2 TB WD Green HDD. Why bother with that rather than simply running Windows in a virtual machine with an associated virtual drive in the OS X file system? Because I want to share the drive between multiple physical machines. You should leave attribution in posts. Eh? -- Merry Christmas/Season's Greetings/ Holidays & May The Force Be With U! Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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Can't have both encrypted Mac's HFS+ & MS W7 EE SP1's BitLockerNTFS?
On 2015-12-25 12:42, Ant wrote:
In comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Alan Browne wrote: On 2015-12-25 11:47, Ant wrote: I'm having problems with my 2 MS partitions in my external USB 2 TB WD Green HDD. Why bother with that rather than simply running Windows in a virtual machine with an associated virtual drive in the OS X file system? Because I want to share the drive between multiple physical machines. You should leave attribution in posts. Eh? When you reply to a post, whatever content you leave from previous posters should be identifiable to who wrote it. You tend to cut out who wrote what making it a pain in some cases to go read more of what that poster wrote. Your prior reply to Paul, for example quotes what he said - but not who said it. -- "But I am somehow extraordinarily lucky, for a guy with ****ty luck." ..Harrison Ford, Rolling Stone - 2015-12-02 |
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Can't have both encrypted Mac's HFS+ & MS W7 EE SP1's BitLockerNTFS?
On 12/25/2015 10:00 AM, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2015-12-25 12:42, Ant wrote: In comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Alan Browne wrote: On 2015-12-25 11:47, Ant wrote: I'm having problems with my 2 MS partitions in my external USB 2 TB WD Green HDD. Why bother with that rather than simply running Windows in a virtual machine with an associated virtual drive in the OS X file system? Because I want to share the drive between multiple physical machines. You should leave attribution in posts. Eh? When you reply to a post, whatever content you leave from previous posters should be identifiable to who wrote it. You tend to cut out who wrote what making it a pain in some cases to go read more of what that poster wrote. Your prior reply to Paul, for example quotes what he said - but not who said it. Ah OK. Sorry. I was trying to clean thing up. Don't you have threading to show them? -- Merry Christmas/Season's Greetings/ Holidays & May The Force Be With U! Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) Chop ANT from its address if e-mailing privately. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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Can't have both encrypted Mac's HFS+ & MS W7 EE SP1's BitLockerNTFS?
On 2015-12-25 13:13, Ant wrote:
On 12/25/2015 10:00 AM, Alan Browne wrote: On 2015-12-25 12:42, Ant wrote: In comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Alan Browne wrote: On 2015-12-25 11:47, Ant wrote: I'm having problems with my 2 MS partitions in my external USB 2 TB WD Green HDD. Why bother with that rather than simply running Windows in a virtual machine with an associated virtual drive in the OS X file system? Because I want to share the drive between multiple physical machines. You should leave attribution in posts. Eh? When you reply to a post, whatever content you leave from previous posters should be identifiable to who wrote it. You tend to cut out who wrote what making it a pain in some cases to go read more of what that poster wrote. Your prior reply to Paul, for example quotes what he said - but not who said it. Ah OK. Sorry. I was trying to clean thing up. Don't you have threading to show them? Easier to just read the name in context. -- "But I am somehow extraordinarily lucky, for a guy with ****ty luck." ..Harrison Ford, Rolling Stone - 2015-12-02 |
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Can't have both encrypted Mac's HFS+ & MS W7 EE SP1's BitLockerNTFS?
On 12/25/2015 10:17 AM, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2015-12-25 13:13, Ant wrote: On 12/25/2015 10:00 AM, Alan Browne wrote: On 2015-12-25 12:42, Ant wrote: In comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Alan Browne wrote: You should leave attribution in posts. Eh? When you reply to a post, whatever content you leave from previous posters should be identifiable to who wrote it. You tend to cut out who wrote what making it a pain in some cases to go read more of what that poster wrote. Your prior reply to Paul, for example quotes what he said - but not who said it. Ah OK. Sorry. I was trying to clean thing up. Don't you have threading to show them? Easier to just read the name in context. OK. -- Merry Christmas/Season's Greetings/ Holidays & May The Force Be With U! Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) Chop ANT from its address if e-mailing privately. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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