dopyoman Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 I just recently installed OSX on my computer and everything works fine except im having issues seeing my hardrives. I have 3 hard drives connected to the computer the 2 SATA drives were installed and formatted under windows as NTFS and one IDE drive that I installed OSX on. How can I see my hard drives? I've tried mounting them through Disk Utility but it just tells me to try the first aid. My main concern is getting the mac to recognize the 500gb HD which just has files and no operating system installed on it. Heres a screen shot of my Disk Utility window. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113104-cant-see-hard-drives/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dopyoman Posted June 29, 2008 Author Share Posted June 29, 2008 I just tried the MacFuse and NTFS-3G program but it didnt do anything for me. I am able to see one of my NTFS drives, the one with windows installed on it but I can even read from the other hard drive. Can anyone post some solutions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113104-cant-see-hard-drives/#findComment-800742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nintenno Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 did u try paragon tahts what worked for me Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113104-cant-see-hard-drives/#findComment-800795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dopyoman Posted June 29, 2008 Author Share Posted June 29, 2008 Yea I just tried it and I'm still unable to mount the 500GB hard drive. I tried unplugging the 160gb Hard drive with the windows partition and just leaving the 500gb drive plugged in to see if it would change anything but that didnt work. I dont know what to do anymore. Is there anyway to browse/mount the hard drive through terminal? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113104-cant-see-hard-drives/#findComment-800802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nintenno Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 could it be since you are running off a SLI board? check your drivers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113104-cant-see-hard-drives/#findComment-800805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dopyoman Posted June 29, 2008 Author Share Posted June 29, 2008 check them for what? I tried ejecting the drive in windows then shutting down thinking maybe OSX thinks it mounted in another OS so it wont touch it. That didnt do anything. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113104-cant-see-hard-drives/#findComment-800834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nintenno Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 ok so i have an intel board that has ich 9 osx wont recognize all of my sata ports. what i mean is check your drivers in OSX (your ktexts) to make sure they support all of your sata ports btw, is ur drive GUID or MBR Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113104-cant-see-hard-drives/#findComment-800852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dopyoman Posted June 30, 2008 Author Share Posted June 30, 2008 As for how my drive is formated i havent the slightest idea. I would assume MBR since i formated it in windows when I got the drive. I'm not too sure how to check my kext but I switched the SATA ports around to see if that did anything but i still get the same errors when I try to mount. This is the message that pops up whenever I start my computer. This is what I get when I try to mount it though disk utility. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113104-cant-see-hard-drives/#findComment-800882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nintenno Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 what kernel are you using? Maybe a clean install would solve your problem. What format is the disk you are trying mount? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113104-cant-see-hard-drives/#findComment-800951 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dopyoman Posted June 30, 2008 Author Share Posted June 30, 2008 No it apparently has to do with how Windows formated the drive, as a Dynamic storage or LDM which doesnt sit well with OSX. So I need to find OSX LDM driver or something to get it to read. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113104-cant-see-hard-drives/#findComment-800965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nintenno Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Uh why don't you just reformat the drive. That might be easier in The end Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113104-cant-see-hard-drives/#findComment-800972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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