antiuser Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 My "media" HDD that contains all my music and videos was initially a Windows drive so it's formatted as NTFS. I added it to /etc/fstab so OSX could write to it and it was all working fine until a couple minutes ago when Finder showed it contained "0 files". Looking at it on Disk Utility I see that all the files are still on there and taking the proper space, but when mounted, the drive still says it has 0 files. The same thing happens when I mount it on Windows... and Disk Warrior can't repair NTFS drives. Any idea what happened and what I can do to fix it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iFIRE Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 My "media" HDD that contains all my music and videos was initially a Windows drive so it's formatted as NTFS. I added it to /etc/fstab so OSX could write to it and it was all working fine until a couple minutes ago when Finder showed it contained "0 files". Looking at it on Disk Utility I see that all the files are still on there and taking the proper space, but when mounted, the drive still says it has 0 files. The same thing happens when I mount it on Windows... and Disk Warrior can't repair NTFS drives. Any idea what happened and what I can do to fix it? Hello, I had the same problem, I use this method and this work for me: Plug your hard disc in one adapter usb and plug de hard disc in windows 7, seven can repair your disc, when you connect your hard disc it will appear one banner : Repair your disc? yes and this work for me. Good Luck!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiuser Posted December 5, 2010 Author Share Posted December 5, 2010 That worked perfectly. Muchas gracias! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiuser Posted December 5, 2010 Author Share Posted December 5, 2010 Gah! It just happened AGAIN! Is there some bug with using /etc/fstab to enable writing on NTFS disks that screws up the master file table? I'm trying to back up my files from that disk but halfway through it again told me there were no files / information could not be written to the disk, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noam AA Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 Gah! It just happened AGAIN! Is there some bug with using /etc/fstab to enable writing on NTFS disks that screws up the master file table? I'm trying to back up my files from that disk but halfway through it again told me there were no files / information could not be written to the disk, etc. this method isn't supported by apple, you have all kind of stable programs to write to ntfs like NTFS-3G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiuser Posted December 6, 2010 Author Share Posted December 6, 2010 Well, technically installing Snow Leopard on non-Apple hardware also isn't supported by Apple but good tip with NTFS-3G, I'll give that a go. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noam AA Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 Well, technically installing Snow Leopard on non-Apple hardware also isn't supported by Apple but good tip with NTFS-3G, I'll give that a go. Thanks! yaa but the ntfs thing is working for mac also so... i am using Tuxera NTFS, very good for my needs, but still i prefer not using my NTFS drives, just read from them, when i need to write, i will enable the tuxera driver and remount my drive, working perfectly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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