Pa-Oel Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 I'm desperately searching for a way to mount my D: partition in Osx. Strangly I see my C: partition (with windows XP on it) and also the external drive is visible. But the D: drive with a lot of handy information is not accessible. Is there a way to mount this drive, I've googled, watched the wiki site but didn't find the good result. Paul Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30096-mount-windows-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jan_187 Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 More info: is the C/D drive on sata or pata? Is it ntfs or fat32? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30096-mount-windows-partition/#findComment-208482 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 I'm desperately searching for a way to mount my D: partition in Osx. Strangly I see my C: partition (with windows XP on it) and also the external drive is visible. But the D: drive with a lot of handy information is not accessible. Is there a way to mount this drive, I've googled, watched the wiki site but didn't find the good result. If you go into Disk Utility (in the Utilities folder), can you see the partition? If you see it there and it is greyed out, click on it and then click on the Mount button in the tool bar. That might do it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30096-mount-windows-partition/#findComment-208490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pa-Oel Posted October 14, 2006 Author Share Posted October 14, 2006 @ Jan_187: Sorry for giving too less information. My C and D disks are pata and NTFS formatted. (It's a laptop) @Rammjet: I can see my D disk here (in grey) when I mount this partition strangely nothing hapens. The log says: Mount of “disk0s5” succeeded that makes it for me even stranger (in the disk utility it keeps staying unmounted). Can I solve this? BTW Thanks for replying and helping a relative new OSx user Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30096-mount-windows-partition/#findComment-209451 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jan_187 Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 Hmmm, maybe a matter of permissions I once had in Linux that my c-drive would mount, but not the d-drive, because the permissions were wrong. In windows, right click on the d-disk and choose properties, then go to the security-tab. Compare that to the C-disk security tab. This is just a hunch though. Im not sure this is actually the problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30096-mount-windows-partition/#findComment-209459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pa-Oel Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 Hmmm, maybe a matter of permissions I once had in Linux that my c-drive would mount, but not the d-drive, because the permissions were wrong. In windows, right click on the d-disk and choose properties, then go to the security-tab. Compare that to the C-disk security tab. This is just a hunch though. Im not sure this is actually the problem. I've checked this, but all the permissions are the same, as far I can see. The only difference is that the D drive is an logical drive compared to the Primary C drive Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30096-mount-windows-partition/#findComment-209779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 For best results, OSX should be one of the first 3 primary partitions on the disk before any logical/extended partitions. And OSX may not (not positive) be willing to work with a drive on a logical partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30096-mount-windows-partition/#findComment-209802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pa-Oel Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 For best results, OSX should be one of the first 3 primary partitions on the disk before any logical/extended partitions. And OSX may not (not positive) be willing to work with a drive on a logical partition. That's the case, the order of rank is first C partition with windows (Primary), than OSx partition (primary), and at last the D partition (logical). Can it be that the label D makes sure that I can't see the partition. So that Mac partition is seen as a D and the D partition also (just thinking).. Checked this and it doesn't make a sense. I can make a new Image but off course there is to less space. Ideas? do other people have the same problem ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30096-mount-windows-partition/#findComment-209899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pa-Oel Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 Maybe this helps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30096-mount-windows-partition/#findComment-210386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 At the bottom of the info window for disk0s5, it says it is partition 5. This is consistent with the name - disk0s5- disk0 means 1st disk and s5 means 5th partition. I only see 3 partitions in Disk Utility. Where are the other 2? What are the other 2? OSX should be one of the first 3 partitions and should be a primary partition. It should not follow a logical/extended partition. Do you have logical/extended partitions on this drive? Is disk0s5 a logical/extended partition? If so, that may be why OSX doesn't want to play nice with it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30096-mount-windows-partition/#findComment-210510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 same problem here, my last partition which cannot be detected is a logical partition in the extended area on my HD. So is there no way of getting osx to detect it so i can read data from it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30096-mount-windows-partition/#findComment-215375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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