Ashgotti Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 hey i had mac installed before but got rid of it cuz i needed the space. well i can't live without it so i reinstalled it but now it only sees one of my windows partitions not the other one with my movies and music. it shows up on disk utilitiy but wont mount. any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28316-mac-only-sees-one-of-my-windows-partitions/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
reghost Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 how are they formatted? are both windows partition in NTFS, FAT32? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28316-mac-only-sees-one-of-my-windows-partitions/#findComment-193826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oughost Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Erm, also, I'm not sure if Tiger can read compressed NTFS partitions (as it doesn't read mine). Don't quote me on this though... But check if your partition is not compressed. oughost! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28316-mac-only-sees-one-of-my-windows-partitions/#findComment-193832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashgotti Posted September 22, 2006 Author Share Posted September 22, 2006 nothing has changed since my last install. both are ntfs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28316-mac-only-sees-one-of-my-windows-partitions/#findComment-193923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashgotti Posted September 24, 2006 Author Share Posted September 24, 2006 in disk utilities it shows the partition that can be seen as windows nt file system and the one i can't see as windows_ntfs.... an ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28316-mac-only-sees-one-of-my-windows-partitions/#findComment-194680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elParkeur Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 I'm facing the same issue. On my windows drive there are several partitions. But some of them cannot be mounted automatically. The ones that can, show up as Windows NT File System in disk utility, the others as Windows_NTFS. Disk Util is also unable to read the Labels of these drives. (see screenshots) I resized and moved some of the partitions on that drive with Acronis Partition Expert. Maybe this is causing that trouble. A diskutil list in terminal states that all partition are in NTFS format which is correct. I was able to manually mount the partitions using: mkdir /Volumes/Files sudo mount_ntfs /dev/disk1s7 /Volumes/Files killall Finder Doing so, I can access the drive and all files on it without any problems. I tried to to automount the partition using fstab: LABEL=Files /Volumes/Files ntfs ro But due to the fact, that the label of this partition is not recognized, the fstab method does not work. Any ideas how to automount such a partition on startup? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/28316-mac-only-sees-one-of-my-windows-partitions/#findComment-297175 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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