apreichner Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I just installed OS X Leopard 10.5.2 not long ago on my PC (system specs below) and everything has been working pretty well so far. It has no problem reading my external hard drive formatted to NTFS, but I also have an internal NTFS drive windows is installed on. It has been unable to read that at all. I tried going into Disk Utility to mount it but it gives me an error telling me that I should try a Repair Disk, but the Repair option is greyed out and it wont let me select it. I know I'm probably not giving a ton of information about the problems, but are there any terminal commands I can type in to get more information on the problem. I'm not really that experienced with terminal commands. So any help would be appreciated. PS- I don't believe I have NTFS-3g installed at the moment, but all I really care about is reading the drive. EDIT - RESOLVED I was right. I went onto the drivers forum and downloaded the nForce 4 ATA kext. Chmodded it and repaired permissions on it and it works well. Here's a link to it: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=35985 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101374-read-ntfs-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartont Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 First install MacFUSE: http://macfuse.googlecode.com/files/MacFUS...-10.5-1.3.1.dmg Then install ntfs-3g: http://hem.bredband.net/unsound/ntfs-3g/NT...-catacombae.dmg Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101374-read-ntfs-drive/#findComment-723237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
apreichner Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 EDIT Okay I followed an NTFS-3g tutorial and I got some terminal information ill show you guys. It gives some things I can try, but im not too sure. new-host-4:~ alan$ mkdir /Volumes/Windows new-host-4:~ alan$ sudo /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/Windows Error reading bootsector: Input/output error Failed to mount '/dev/disk0s1': Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or you have hardware faults, or you have a SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot into Windows TWICE. The usage of the /f parameter is very important! If you have SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first you must activate it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation for the details. new-host-4:~ alan$ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101374-read-ntfs-drive/#findComment-723242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartont Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Okay finished installing those two. It still doesn't mount my IDE drive, is there something more I have to do? If your drive wasn't unmounted "cleanly" in windows, mac os (or MacFUSE) won't mount it. The drive needs to be unmounted cleanly in winblows if this is the case. Do you see the drive in the System Profiler? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101374-read-ntfs-drive/#findComment-723265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
apreichner Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 Yes I do. I also run Linux and Linux can read the drive with no problem. I properly restarted Windows so I know the Unmounting isn't the issue (i've been there before). Disk Utility and System Profiler both see it. System Profiler says this about the drive: Capacity: 74.53 GB Model: WDC WD800JB-00JJC0 Revision: 05.01C05 Serial Number: WD-WCAM9J015197 Removable Media: No Detachable Drive: No BSD Name: disk0 Protocol: ATA Unit Number: 0 Socket Type: Internal Low Power Polling: No Mac OS 9 Drivers: No Partition Map Type: MBR (Master Boot Record) S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101374-read-ntfs-drive/#findComment-723269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
inimicus Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 If you haven't already, how about bootin' into Windoze then restarting? Sounds like a 'DUH,' but it's worked for me... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101374-read-ntfs-drive/#findComment-723461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
apreichner Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 I tried that. It doesn't really work. I have a feeling that it is a problem with OS X reading my IDE drives. My External is USB and Leopard is installed to my other External. Anybody have any ideas how to fix this. Maybe some nForce 4 ATA drivers or something, I'm not too sure. EDIT - RESOLVED I was right. I went onto the drivers forum and downloaded the nForce 4 ATA kext. Chmodded it and repaired permissions on it and it works well. Here's a link to it: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=35985 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101374-read-ntfs-drive/#findComment-724274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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