bdchambers79 Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 So I have three hard drives in my computer, a 160G, an 80G and a 40G. I installed Kalyway 10.5.2 on the 160G drive, after some fiddling with the graphics I got the accelerated NVidia driver working. Before I installed, I placed important documents and media on the 40G drive (pretty much filling it). This is formatted as NTFS. It shows up fine on my desktop, but I can't copy anything from it (I get I/O errors when I try to read from it). So I booted up a Linux rescue CD, formatted the 80G drive as FAT32 (I figured there wouldn't be any problems since it's a common format), and copied the data from the NTFS to the FAT32 drive. Unfortunately, Leopard doesn't even recognize the FAT32 drive. At all. Does anyone have a suggestion for how to get either of these two drives (NTFS or FAT32) working? The media is quite important, which is why I placed it onto a separate hard drive during the install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102377-ntfs-and-fat32/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
exman Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Install "MacFUSE" and "NTFS-3G" on Leopard and it'll read and write your NTFS partition. They're freeware. With FAT32, I don't know. But I think if you format it again using Disk utility in Leopard, it will most likely work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102377-ntfs-and-fat32/#findComment-729795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banks Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 I've got the same problem. Can't use macfuse + ntfs-3g (latest versions) nor paragon ntfs. It's happened with Kalyway 10.5.2 installation. With previous versions (Leo4all v2) I was able to use macfuse and paragon ntfs without problems.(Not at the same time Now I can't even read from ntfs partitions. When I try to verify or repair disk in disk utility it says "resource busy" and can't mount the disks. Anyone knows which kexts (or anything else) from kaly 10.5.2 installation are responsible for this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102377-ntfs-and-fat32/#findComment-729879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdchambers79 Posted May 2, 2008 Author Share Posted May 2, 2008 Install "MacFUSE" and "NTFS-3G" on Leopard and it'll read and write your NTFS partition. They're freeware. With FAT32, I don't know. But I think if you format it again using Disk utility in Leopard, it will most likely work. These didn't work; I'm still getting I/O errors, in the form of: cp: <filename> Input/output error I'll try Paragon next. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102377-ntfs-and-fat32/#findComment-732477 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdchambers79 Posted May 2, 2008 Author Share Posted May 2, 2008 Here's what I did to make it work: I have Leopard installed on the 160G drive. I have my media backed up on the 40G drive. I installed Paragon NTFS, and formatted the 80G drive FAT32 (PNTFS refused to read the 80G drive formatted in NTFS, no matter what). I booted my Linux Rescue CD, and copied the data from the 40G to the 80G drives. I then rebooted Leopard, and copied the data to my local folder. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102377-ntfs-and-fat32/#findComment-732593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillin Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 leopard should recognize a FAT32 partition and could do full read/write access. Are you sure your 80GB disk with FAT32 partitions is mounted correctly? Check your diskutl for this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/102377-ntfs-and-fat32/#findComment-732636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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