New to Mac, old to planet

[rawall]

Can Lion recognize a partitioned external drive formatted as NTSF?

My lovely 82 year old mom-in-law bought me a 2T Seagate that I want to use to back up both my PC and Mac on different partitions.

I already have the PC backed up, Mac so far can't see the drive.

Any suggestions?

 

[rawall]

Solved problem. Mac recognized NTFS format & took over - sweet.

 

[Kaveman]

The Mac can read but can't write native to NTFS.

 

[Kaveman]

but yes you can that's what BootCamp can do.

 

[rawall]

Actually, my MacBook took over the NTFS formatted partition and changed it to its preference and very politely backed up my data. Thanks for the input.

 

[karazelle]

Have you seen if it still works for your PC? Unless you simplified the details a lot, that didn't make sense...

 

[rawall]

The PC Volume on the partitioned drive works fine. Sorry if I confused anyone. My original concern was whether or not my MAC could write to the NTFS format. It does.