zackhunter Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 Hi, iam running macosx on a Sata HDD. On the same HDD is a 127Gb NTFS partition. but i cant activate it in mac os x. Is there a size limit? other partitions e.g. 70Gb or 80Gb NTFS work fine and i can mount´em. update: In the HDD management tool i can see the NTFS partition and the activate button is also there. But when i click on it nothing happens. In the consolewindow it says the partition is activated succesful but it isnt mounted. How can i get access on it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22460-can%C2%B4t-activate-ntfs-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 What do you mean "activate it"? You want to mount it? Or write on it? To the second question the answer will be negative. Chech if the partition is hidden. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22460-can%C2%B4t-activate-ntfs-partition/#findComment-148728 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zackhunter Posted July 22, 2006 Author Share Posted July 22, 2006 See the update above ! in the HDD management tool you can activate partitions or HDDs. when you activate a partition it is normaly auto-mounted. but my partition isnt automounted. and iam not sure if the partition is already active. the partition is a logical and not hidden. a day ago i merged 2 NTFS partitions to this 127GB NTFS and now i cant mount/activate it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22460-can%C2%B4t-activate-ntfs-partition/#findComment-148731 Share on other sites More sharing options...
belgrano Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 Maybe because it's logical. Make it primary. It don't have to be active to be mounted in Mac OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22460-can%C2%B4t-activate-ntfs-partition/#findComment-148745 Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 before this problem accured, did you have any problems mounting logical partitions? If not, then the way the 2 partitions were merged is the problem. It's a partition structure that OS X doesn't understand and can not mount. Btw, OS X has no problem mounting logical partitions. Only problem while installing Tiger on logical partitions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22460-can%C2%B4t-activate-ntfs-partition/#findComment-148791 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zackhunter Posted July 27, 2006 Author Share Posted July 27, 2006 Hm, couldnt figure out the problem. I had never problems with any kind of logical, primary, active, not active NTFS partitions. my kexts all work great w/o any errors on kextload. So it must be a problem the way how the partations are made. (in windows/dos mode) Like domino already said. Maybe larger cluster size? i dont know. but i need NTFS to handle files greater than 4GB (Isos, DMGs) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22460-can%C2%B4t-activate-ntfs-partition/#findComment-150880 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 ...but i need NTFS to handle files greater than 4GB (Isos, DMGs) You realize that MacOSX can read NTFS but can't write to it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/22460-can%C2%B4t-activate-ntfs-partition/#findComment-150881 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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