osv Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 2 hdds in computer, one guid kalyway hdd, one winxp hdd, switching drives in pc bios for booting purposes. when booted off of the 10.5.1 drive, i can see the ntfs drive, but there are no visible files inside of the drive... if i can read external ntfs drives, shouldn't i be able to read internally mounted ntfs hdds? is this a 10.5.1 limitation? gigabyte p35c-ds3r, using the orange sata ports for both hdds. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79409-cant-read-the-contents-of-internal-ntfs-drives/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrongBad18 Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 install ntfs3g and macfuse Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79409-cant-read-the-contents-of-internal-ntfs-drives/#findComment-562804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Also Paragon NTFS for Mac works fine and give you write ability with great performance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79409-cant-read-the-contents-of-internal-ntfs-drives/#findComment-562887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
osv Posted January 5, 2008 Author Share Posted January 5, 2008 thanks for your help, i tried the ntfs3g and macfuse, but i still can't see the contents of the ntfs winxp boot drive. it just doesn't make sense that i can read external ntfs hdds, but not internal ntfs hdd. i hope that this is something paragon can fix, i'll give their demo a try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79409-cant-read-the-contents-of-internal-ntfs-drives/#findComment-566335 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatDeceiver Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 thanks for your help, i tried the ntfs3g and macfuse, but i still can't see the contents of the ntfs winxp boot drive. it just doesn't make sense that i can read external ntfs hdds, but not internal ntfs hdd. i hope that this is something paragon can fix, i'll give their demo a try. as macgirl stated, try Paragon ntfs, I had lots of problems with ntfs3g and macfuse. It would often not recognize one or the other of my partitions or simply not write to it. I never had any problems with paragon ntfs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79409-cant-read-the-contents-of-internal-ntfs-drives/#findComment-567311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Actually, his/her problem might be a bit deeper since you should be able to natively read ntfs volumes without paragon (excellent product btw) or ntfs-3g. Perhaps it has something to do with the type of controller that is being used by those drives...or a need to switch from ide mode to ahci mode or vice versa. A warning though, it can be dangerous to your ntfs drive's health to do too much experimenting on it from within osx without a very dependable backup. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/79409-cant-read-the-contents-of-internal-ntfs-drives/#findComment-568237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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