PRGUY85 Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Hello: I've got 2 NTFS partitions on my PC. One of them is the one I use for all my media. Both of them are properly recognized by Mac 10.5.5 yet only one of them is using the NTFS 3G driver while the other is using the regular Mac NTFS internal system. I tried disabling NTFS-3G, unmounting, remounting, etc...yet only one of them uses NTFS-3G (the one with Win XP installed to it by the way). So, how can I get my media NTFS partition to utilize NTFS-3G considering it is installed and another partition already uses it? Any way to edit something (ala /etc/fstab on Linux)? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132006-cannot-get-ntfs-partition-to-use-ntfs-3g/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dies Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Try mounting it from the command line and post the output. Can I assume you already ran chkdisk on it in Windows? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132006-cannot-get-ntfs-partition-to-use-ntfs-3g/#findComment-935984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRGUY85 Posted October 19, 2008 Author Share Posted October 19, 2008 After running several tests on Win XP, I have NTFS-3G on both of them. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132006-cannot-get-ntfs-partition-to-use-ntfs-3g/#findComment-936246 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRGUY85 Posted October 19, 2008 Author Share Posted October 19, 2008 Hmm..I rebooted my Hackintosh today and again one of the NTFS partitions is using regular NTFS driver while the other is using NTFS-3G. Any way to just force mount that one as NTFS-3G all the time? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132006-cannot-get-ntfs-partition-to-use-ntfs-3g/#findComment-936761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dies Posted October 19, 2008 Share Posted October 19, 2008 Hmm..I rebooted my Hackintosh today and again one of the NTFS partitions is using regular NTFS driver while the other is using NTFS-3G. Any way to just force mount that one as NTFS-3G all the time? While NTFS-3G does have a --force option, this is NOT a good idea. I assume you're using the stable version and not the patched for performance one? If you haven't already done so, disable logging on those drives, for example for each one do touch /Volumes/<your drive label here>/.fseventsd/no_log (if you get any input/output errors here it means you need to run chkdisk then try again) now unmount those drives using disk utility, uninstall NTFS-3G using the uninstall script that comes with the package, then run chkdisk from Windows on those drives again, finally re-install NTFS-3G "stable" version. Hopefully that takes care of it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132006-cannot-get-ntfs-partition-to-use-ntfs-3g/#findComment-936839 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRGUY85 Posted October 20, 2008 Author Share Posted October 20, 2008 No luck so far with that guide. The .fseventsd/no_log was not found and still I've got one NTFS using NTFS-3G while the other is using NT filesystem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132006-cannot-get-ntfs-partition-to-use-ntfs-3g/#findComment-937125 Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 have you tried Paragon NTFS Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132006-cannot-get-ntfs-partition-to-use-ntfs-3g/#findComment-937152 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted October 20, 2008 Share Posted October 20, 2008 Yes, commercial Paragon NTFS works fine. Freeware NTFS-3G I can't correctly install, dunno why. It seems to be very beta. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132006-cannot-get-ntfs-partition-to-use-ntfs-3g/#findComment-937252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRGUY85 Posted October 20, 2008 Author Share Posted October 20, 2008 Installed Paragon yet it sometimes work (when I manually perform CHKDSK on XP before I log in on Mac) and sometimes it just won't even load the partition. When I perform Verify/Repair Disk on Disk Utility for that particular partition, it locates 0x30 bad sectors. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132006-cannot-get-ntfs-partition-to-use-ntfs-3g/#findComment-938154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRGUY85 Posted October 23, 2008 Author Share Posted October 23, 2008 OK, I still cannot read/write on that particular NTFS drive. NTFS-3G lets me mount it but I cannot write to it. Paragon doesn't even mount it and after disk verifying/repairing states I've got bad sectors and cannot repair. I tried repairing on Windows with something called Flobo but it apparently didn't work. Any ideas? On Windows/Linux I can read/write perfectly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132006-cannot-get-ntfs-partition-to-use-ntfs-3g/#findComment-940696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRGUY85 Posted October 24, 2008 Author Share Posted October 24, 2008 Well after verifying the 500GB HDD with HDD Regenerator for 2 days and repairing 96 bad sectors I could get read/write with NTFS-3G (not with Paragon even though verify/repair disk on Disk Utility came out good). Let's see how long it lasts. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/132006-cannot-get-ntfs-partition-to-use-ntfs-3g/#findComment-942216 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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