TheGreatDeceiver Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 I have dual boot XP and OSX. I boot OSX from the XP bootloader (chained). Everything works beautifully, however I cannot mount the XP (NTFS) partition in OSX. I see it in diskutility but trying to mount it leads to nowhere. It flickers a little and then just doesn't do anything. Any idea what I need to do? Is it possible that the diskutility is expecting this partition at a certain positioin in the partition table. I had to move the XP partition from the first entry into the second slot in the partition table to make my Dell Media Direct partition work (HPA). any help appreciated. I know I will not be able to write to it, however I'd like to be able to at least read from it. thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17374-dual-boot-cannot-mount-ntfs-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatDeceiver Posted May 14, 2006 Author Share Posted May 14, 2006 no suggestions? thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17374-dual-boot-cannot-mount-ntfs-partition/#findComment-112742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrrjrr Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 Have you tried mounting it using the mount command from a terminal screen? This works for me while automounting and Disk Utility do not. If you can get this kind of thing to work, you can put the same two lines of commands in /etc/rc.local (no need for the sudo part there) and it should mount up each time you boot. Adjust the "disk0s1" to match your partition . . . -------------------------------------------------------- Manually Mounting NTFS Partition: sudo mkdir /Volumes/WINDOWS sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/WINDOWS Then navigate to it in finder, and it will add to the desktop. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17374-dual-boot-cannot-mount-ntfs-partition/#findComment-112751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatDeceiver Posted May 15, 2006 Author Share Posted May 15, 2006 Have you tried mounting it using the mount command from a terminal screen? This works for me while automounting and Disk Utility do not. If you can get this kind of thing to work, you can put the same two lines of commands in /etc/rc.local (no need for the sudo part there) and it should mount up each time you boot. Adjust the "disk0s1" to match your partition . . .-------------------------------------------------------- Manually Mounting NTFS Partition: sudo mkdir /Volumes/WINDOWS sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/WINDOWS Then navigate to it in finder, and it will add to the desktop. works great, thank you!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17374-dual-boot-cannot-mount-ntfs-partition/#findComment-112884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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