NTFS Partition Mounted but not showing in Finder

[Rez.]

Hello.

 

As the topic's title suggests, I'm having a problem displaying data from an NTFS partition using OS X 10.4.8. My setup is as follows:

 

. Primary Master : 250GB Western Digital Partitioned as follows -

- Primary Partition : XP Pro (NTFS)

- Primary Partition : Ubuntu Linux (EXT3)

- Primary Partition : Linux Swap (Swap)

- Extended Partition

- Logical Partition : Data Partition (NTFS)

 

 

. Primary Slave : 80GB Western Digital Partitioned as follows -

- Primary Partition : OS X 10.4.8 (HFS Journaled)

- Extended Partition

- Logical Partition : Shared Partition (Fat32)

 

 

When I boot into OS X, The NTFS Data Partition is mounted on the desktop. However, When I open it up in Finder, There is nothing there. No content at all. I ran sudo dmesg in Terminal and the only thing I saw pertaining to NTFS was this:

 

ntfs_procfixups: magic doesn't match: 00000000 != 58444e49
ntfs_procfixups: magic doesn't match: 00000000 != 58444e49
ntfs_procfixups: magic doesn't match: 00000000 != 58444e49
ntfs_procfixups: magic doesn't match: 00000000 != 58444e49
ntfs_procfixups: magic doesn't match: 00000000 != 58444e49
ntfs_procfixups: magic doesn't match: 00000000 != 58444e49
ntfs_procfixups: magic doesn't match: 00000000 != 58444e49
ntfs_procfixups: magic doesn't match: 00000000 != 58444e49
ntfs_procfixups: magic doesn't match: 00000000 != 58444e49
ntfs_procfixups: magic doesn't match: 00000000 != 58444e49

 

I've googled around and found only one link over macosxhints that was very old and not very helpful. Is anyone else experiencing this? I used to be able to read NTFS partitions in 10.4.6. Perhaps OS X doesn't like my Partitioning Scheme?

 

Any help would be apprecited.

Thanks.

 

PS: Both Drives are Pata (IDE).

[macgirl]

Does your NTFS Partition has compressed/encrypted files or folders?

 

You can read this http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=38830

it is about mount the NTS partition as READ/WRITE volume.

[vanou]

Hi,

 

You may have a look at the new MacFuse : http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/

 

"...Examples of file systems that work have been tested (to varying degrees) include sshfs, ntfs-3g (read/write NTFS), ..."

[ksec]

Was your NTFS partition formatted with Vista?

[Rez.]

Thanks for all the replies.

 

@Macgirl and Vanou - Thanks for links, I will read them and try them out tonight.

 

@Ksec - No that partition was formatted in Windows XP Pro SP2 when I first bought it. I have feeling there maybe more to this. Yesterday I had to get a 6 GB File from my NTFS partition to my Fat32 Partition. Obviously I couldn't just copy the file in Windows (Due to size limitations) so I split the file into 10 700 MB rar archives and transfered those over to the Fat32 Partition. It took about two minutes in XP. In OS X, It took about an hour to transfer all the Files over to the HFS Partition. I suspect I'm not in UATA mode.

 

Anyway If I find anything out, I'll post back here.

 

Thanks again for all the responses.

[RyanThaDude29]

Something that might be your problem like it was mine. I formatted mine with larger cluster sizes (16KB) and OS X wouldn't recognize them until I reformatted with standard size (4KB).

 

Just a thought...

[Rez.]

Just an update for anyone else that might have the same problem.

 

I recently came to the conclusion that my HDDs were quite slow and soon realized that my OS X install was using the Generic ATA Kext. I have an SIS chipset and I came across this thread here and was able to enable UDMA on both my drives. Immediately upon boot, I brought up Finder and navigated to one of my NTFS partitions. I could now see all of it's contents and interact with them.

 

Just a heads up to anyone experiencing this and have no UDMA support.

 

Thanks to the guys in the link thread above for all the hard work.