dripple Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 As the topic says, I'm in trouble with my setup. Story behind: I started with two drives, 80 GB with Windows (NTFS) and a 300 GB Maxtor with data who contains á 20 GB partition for Mac OS. With this config, I was able to boot and work, but cannot create or copy larger files. What have I done? I put a third drive (an old 20 GB Seagate) and setup Mac OS. This was the solution for my "write" problem: from now, I was able to mount DMG's and copy their content to my Mac OS-Disk I also setup my 80 GB drive with an small 10 GB FAT32 partition to use as swap disk. This works also fine, I can use this partition. What happend? - I can't access the NTFS Partition on my 80 GB drive. - I see my 300 GB drive in Mac OS, but is stated as an 128GB Maxtor, when I click on a partion (only the first partition is shown), Disk Util says the correct values. - If I open that Drive in Finder, it seems to be ampty. No Files to see. I used this drive earlier to listen to my MP3 with iTunes. From windows, this drives work properly. dripple Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12817-need-advice-put-new-hd-in-old-wont-recognized-properly-anymore/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I think OS X mounts drives strangely. I also have 3 hard drives on my computer. OS X seems to see only 1 partition per drive in addition to the boot partition. And there seems to be a precidence; I can't get it to recognize an NTFS partition on a drive with a FAT partition. Drive 1 (80GB): FAT partition for bootloader (seen) NTFS partition for XP (never seen) FreeBSD partition (not supported) Drive 2 (20GB): HPFS partition for OS/2 (not supported) FAT partition for DOS (hidden and not seen. seen if unhidden, then FAT32 not seen) FAT32 partition for WinME and swap (seen, unless FAT unhidden) Drive 3 (240GB): HFS+ partition (OS X boot partition) Extended partition containing Linux swap and Reiser partitions (not supported) Solaris partition (not supported) NTFS partition for data (always seen; great for MP3s) I suspect if you delete FAT32 partition from 1st disk, your NTFS there will become visible. I suspect your OS X partition is after your NTFS on 2nd drive; try putting it first. That works for me. Use your old drive as FAT32 for swap. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12817-need-advice-put-new-hd-in-old-wont-recognized-properly-anymore/#findComment-81420 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dripple Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 Sorry, I missed to give some Details: First HD, 80 GB - NTFS Partiton with XP, not seen - FAT32 Partition with boot loader and swap, seen Second HD, 300 GB, recorgnized as 128 GB - 260 GB NTFS Partition with Data (e.g. my MP3 and Pictures), seen but "empty" - 40 GB FAT32 Partition for swap, never seen Third HD, 20 GB - HFS+ for Mac OS, works. I've tried to remove my 80 GB HD from the setup and started up my System- It still not mounts my data drive. The I changed on the 300 GB all partition to "logical" and suddently (after rebooting) my Windows XP-NTFS partition shows up! Next: The Windows-XP NTFS-partition, even if wasn't mounted, was shown by DiskUtil, but not mountable. For my 300 GB Maxtor, this isn't true. If I look at /dev/disk**, I see there two slices for this disk, but if I try to mount manually, mount_ntfs says "device busy". Here's what the profiler says about the first ATA-Channel (Sorry for german, but the values should be readable) ATA-Bus: WDC WD800BB-00JKC0: Kapazität: 74.53 GB Modell: WDC WD800BB-00JKC0 Version: 05.01C05 Seriennummer: WD-WCAMD3640507 Wechselmedien: Nein Absteckbares Laufwerk: Nein BSD-Name: disk1 Protokoll: ATA Einheiten-Nummer: 0 Socket-Typ: Intern OS 9 Treiber: Nein S.M.A.R.T.-Status: Nicht unterstützt Volumes: disk1s1: Kapazität: 64.35 GB Verfügbar: 36.03 GB Beschreibbar: Nein Dateisystem: NTFS disk1s5: Kapazität: 10.17 GB Verfügbar: 8.15 GB Beschreibbar: Ja Dateisystem: MS-DOS FAT32 Maxtor 6L300R0: Kapazität: 128 GB Modell: Maxtor 6L300R0 Version: BAH41G10 Seriennummer: L60QPL4H Wechselmedien: Nein Absteckbares Laufwerk: Nein BSD-Name: disk2 Protokoll: ATA Einheiten-Nummer: 1 Socket-Typ: Intern OS 9 Treiber: Nein S.M.A.R.T.-Status: Nicht unterstützt Volumes: disk2s5: Kapazität: 127.99 GB Verfügbar: 145.02 GB Beschreibbar: Nein Dateisystem: NTFS As you can see: The Maxtor is reported with a capacity ("Kapazität") of 128 GB (not 300), and free space is shown as 145 GB, this is true. But this space is divided to two partions?! Is it possible to "reset" Mac OS to force a totally clean mount of this drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12817-need-advice-put-new-hd-in-old-wont-recognized-properly-anymore/#findComment-81464 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 I just figured out how to force OS X to mount the NTFS partition on my 1st hard disk, as well as the fat (in addition to the fat32 partition) on my second disk. I did this by adding the following lines to /Private/etc/rc.common #Following lines added mkdir /Volumes/DOS mkdir /Volumes/WinXP mount -t msdos /dev/disk1s4 /Volumes/DOS mount -t ntfs /dev/disk0s3 /Volumes/WinXP #end addition Knowing the sizes of the partitions, you can use Disk Utility to see the sizes of the unmounted partitions and figure out what partitions to mount this way. Perhaps something similiar will work for you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12817-need-advice-put-new-hd-in-old-wont-recognized-properly-anymore/#findComment-87732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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