opfobo Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Hi, after searching for a while for a suitable solution I decided to write here hoping that someone else had a similar problem. I am running 10.5 Kalaway on a Gigayte Dq6 with 2 GB Ram on an old 40GB IDE drive with NTFS support for reading writing and acess to the other 250GB Drive (SATA over AHCI) which I have build in. Wireless Lan with the Alfa USB adapter (8187RT Chipset). No Hardware issues at all and a very stable system! My problem occured some days ago. I started my mac system and ssuddenly it crashed. I restarted - it crashed again. -v boot showed no other problems... again a crash booting from the installation DVD and running DiskUtility did not gave me any options to repair my IDE drive because I was thinking that I had some kind of issue there (maybe a bad sector or something like that). So I decided to reinstall everything... After the installation I recognized, that only one of the 2 partitions (NTFS 40 GB) was recognized by the system after startup. The other one (NTFS 460GB) could not be mounted at all. I thought it was a kind of no NTFS read/write support bug and installed Paragons NTFS drivers for Mac which are working like a charm btw. I rebooted and both partitions appeared and afterwards my fresh system crashed again... I tested if the USB HD was the main problem and unpluged it and no more crashes appeard. So I decided to backup my data and format the 460GB partition in XP to NTFS again and performed a scan to without any kind of results that could give me a clue that the disk is damaged. But now even with the formated NTFS partition the System keeps crashing. I think I will format the entire Drive and reset the partition table hoping that this will solve the problem. But my question is: Did anyone had similar problems with external drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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