No, Macfuse or the like is needed to gain WRITE access to an NTFS drive, but
any recent MacOS 10.whatever should read NTFS without a hiccup.

Jim

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:

> You may need MacFUSE so Mac can understand NTFS. Other than that, you
> should be fine.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
>
> Eric
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:50 PM, AZ Pete <subs2@cactusfamily.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have a friend who's laptop (Windows) died, but thinks the drive should
> be
> > ok. She bought a new MacBook and would like to copy her data from the old
> > laptop. My thought was to take the drive out of the defunct laptop and
> put
> > it in a USB enclosure which could then be connected to the new Macbook.
> >
> > Does anyone have any recommendations on USB drive enclosures
> makes/models?
> >
> > I'm very well versed with Windows and Unix, but I'm not a Mac person. I'm
> > assuming that this scenario would work. Let me know if I'm missing
> > something.
> >
> > Any thoughts would be helpful.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
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