Is there any OS that I can boot with a usb and then see whats inside the c drive and d local disk so that I can manipulate the files in
I tested many Small Operating systems but I never saw files or drives like C:/
Since you can mount NTFS and FAT32 drives with Linux, you can manipulate Windows files after booting a small Linux distribution like PuppyLinux or any other.
I also just read that KolibriOS can read those file systems, and it is 1.44MB large, surely one of the smallest graphical OS.
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I want to improve my backup system by using RAID technology accompanied by Cloud backup services.
I use several macOS computers, and would prefer the NAS solution over the DAS one.
The first step would be to backup all my existing data.
I currently store it in external HHD/SSD formatted in HFS+ Journaled;
1x HDD 4TB - almost full - Format: HFS+ Journaled.
1x SSD 4TB - almost full - Format: HFS+ Journaled.
1x SSD 1TB - almost full - Format: HFS+ Journaled.
My professional surroundings as well as reviews on the internet often recommend the brand Synology.
I was tempted to make the following investment according to my needs:
Synology DS1821+ (8 bays)
5x 8TB HHD (WD Red Plus WD80EFZX 8TB)
SHR-2 protection type (24TB of free space, 16TB allocated for protection)
IDrive® Cloud backup service (provides DSM extension).
Problem:
I want to find the best way to efficiently and safely transfer all my current data (around 10 TB) from my external HDD/SSD disks (HFS+ Journaled fromats) to the future NAS volume.
I have the feeling that doing so via SMB or FTP will be way to long and uncertain.
So I thought that the most straight forward way would probably be to simply connect each external disks directly to the NAS (USB 3.1), and simply transfer portions of all data manually directly in DSM.
However, after extra investigations, I was surprised to learn the following:
Synology knowledge base says:
https://www.synology.com/enus/knowledgebase/DSM/help/DSM/AdminCenter/system_externaldevice_devicelist
Some models support HFS/HFS Plus with read-only.
Journal is not supported on HFS/HFS Plus.
You will need to install exFAT Access from Package Center to enable Synology NAS to support exFAT.
Make sure you have ejected the external disk before unplugging it.
Clearly states that no model supports journaling.
Product specs says:
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS1821+#specs
Unless I am missing it, it does not inform much about the journaling matter or size limits.
About disabling journaling via the Disk utility app on macOS:
It feels like it is only possible via CLI these days (since BigSur).
I understand what disabling journaling implies, that it is probably not a big deal for temporary transferring all the data to the NAS, but I still would like to avoid such accommodations as much as possible (I've never done it, I don't know).
I looked for NAS alternatives that would support HFS+ Journaled formats but couldn't find any.
Are my concerns justified or am I overthinking this ?
Any pieces of advice from experienced NAS & macOS users would be much appreciated.
I recently made a floppy that boots MS-DOS 6.22. It boots successfully, but then I can't access the hard drive. It can access the floppy drive and CD optical drive, but not the hard disk.
I first tried making a floppy by downloading from www.allbootdisks.com. Then I tried making a floppy from bootdisk.com. Both have the same problem.
What should I do to access the hard disk? Do I need a driver?
From your comments:
"It has its own drive letter (F:)"
...actually drive letter config is specific to instance of the O/S you're running under. A partition does not have an intrinsic drive letter. That may be the letter your disk is mapped to in Windows, but it doesn't mean anything outside that context. Under Linux for instance, the same partition would be mapped an entirely different way, because Linux has no no concept of drive letters. Equally if you have two versions of Windows installed on a PC you could have the same physical partition mapped as F: on one install and G: on another.
So under DOS your partition is not necessarily mapped to the same (or any letter). According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment#Order_of_assignment it will map each readable partition automatically in the order it detects it. So it might be C: or D:, maybe. So you need to check and see if it's been mapped to another letter.
Of course it's also possible it may not actually detect the disk at all. Drives installed via SCSI or SATA will probably require extra drivers. You may have a hard time finding a SATA driver in particular, since this technology didn't exist when MS-DOS was current. If your BIOS supports it, try putting the disk into IDE emulation mode and hopefully DOS can then detect it. You may lose a bit of performance, but at least you can access the disk.
A few years ago I switch from PC to Mac. I didn't do this because I preferred to use a Mac, but because I desired experience working with both systems. Now, I see the pros and cons of both sides, and I use them both regularly. In fact, my job requires it.
Now though, I would like to create a central repository of all my PC / Mac data. Unfortunately there is a language barrier between NTFS and HFS+.
Is there any way I can create an efficient and reliable central repository for all my data? I prefer not to use 3rd party drivers as I've found them to be complex and often unreliable.
I think you may be confusing physical, on-disk filesystems with network filesystems.
HFS+ and NTFS are physical, on-disk layouts.
Samba/NFS (Network File System)/AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) are network filesystems.
There is nothing to stop you sharing an HFS+ physical filesystem via Samba (network filesystem) with Windows clients. Likewise, you could theoretically, share an NTFS filesystem with an OSX client via AFP.
You can just share a directory (folder) from your Mac by going to:
Apple menu (top left of screen) -> Preferences -> Sharing
Then set up like in red:
Another, brilliant option which I use for serving all my music to a SONOS system, is to get a little Raspberry Pi, that uses almost zero power, and add a 256MB USB memory stick (or maybe 4 off 64GB memory sticks as that can be cheaper) and RAID them together and make that available via Samba. It is silent and uses no power!
i do not know about your possibilities, but may be you could just use sambaserver. My router has a build in sambaserver all i have to do is plugin an USB disk.
You could also format your external hd to FAT32 filesystem. It should work for mac and windows, but it does not support files over 4GB. But its fine for document, photos and so.
good luck
I am not sure how well FTP would work but I assume you could run a FTP server in one or both systems and FTP client in the corresponding system. Most browsers can be a FTP client but there are also dedicated programs.
Mac OS X can read from NTFS drives. It also supports writing to NTFS, but that feature is disabled by default. I am not sure if it can work when the volume is online to Windows. Quick Tip: How to Write to NTFS Drives in OS X Mavericks explains it.
Enable writing to NTFS hard drives for free in Mac OS X (including El Capitan!) claims to provide read and write access to NTFS for free from Mac OS X.
You can use Apple's Boot Camp. I am not sure of the licensing requirements for the Windows you run in the Apple system but apparently you can use your existing license.
There is also Catacombae - HFSExplorer for accessing Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images from Windows.
There is also commercial software available. A popular one is Paragon HFS+ for Windows 10 and Paragon NTFS for Mac® 14 - Write / read access to NTFS under OS X El Capitan - Introduction.
I did not know what "sambaserver" is but it is a SMB server for UNIX/Linux as described in . SMB is built into Windows; see IT: How to Transfer Files Using Microsoft File Sharing for Windows.
I have access to a bunch of Mac desktops, the hard drives of which are under-utilized. I want to set up a distributed filesystem to gang them together into one large virtual volume. The server has to be able to run as a normal user.
I've tried PVFS2, but it's designed for Linux and isn't running well on OSX (hangs the clients on write).
What should I use instead?
The Andrew File System (AFS) is a very mature distributed file system with OS X support. Check out OpenAFS.
I need to transfer DVD image files between a Windows XP computer and a Mac running Leopard.
The machines are not connected via a fast network, and I have a few USB drives floating around that I want to use, e.g. 8GB flash, 60GB and 250GB USB hard drives.
Sometimes the files creep above 4GB (the maximum size of a single file on FAT32), and I've had no luck with NTFS on Leopard. I'm not aware of any drivers for XP/Vista that support Mac file systems like HFS.
Anyone got any suggestions as to what file system would best suit here?
Thanks
Tom
What did you try for NTFS on Leopard?
It's pretty simple:
install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G driver.
???
Profit.
You could use split on the Mac to divide the files up into 2GB fragments and then recombine the fragments on Windows using copy.
split -b 2048m file
copy xxa + xxb file
You could try a linux filesystem, e.g. with e2fs on mac (I've only ever tried reading these however). There are drivers for windows.
Alternatively you could use the split utility on the mac to cut the file up into smaller chunks, and recombine them on windows.
Formatting to exFAT worked for me, it suppose to have some limitations with old-windows but is not my case.