Help with NTFS Drive

Hello,

I've been reading other posts about trouble with NTFS drives, but I still have some questions. Hope someone can help!

My fiancee just got a MacBook to replace her PC laptop. She has an external Maxtor 300GB Hard Drive, but None of our macs can read the drive. I know OS X is supposed to read NTFS, so I don't know what the problem is.

I have tried:

Installing MacFuse - Didn't work
Plugging in the drive, then starting up the Mac - Nothing

I read in another post that there could be Windows security settings on the drive that will make it invisible to any other computer, but I don't know how to set those setting. Not really a Windows user.

Thanks!

varmit said:

Did you try the directions located here on macosxhints.com

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070220150856279&query=ntfs

There is also some info on this page: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050521110452194&lsrc=osxh

Which is a command line utility called mount_ntfs.
To mount an ntfs volume located in /dev/ad1s1:

# mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /mnt

To get the volume name (in Unicode):

# cat /mnt/\$Volume:\$VOLUME_NAME

To read directory raw data:

# cat /mnt/foodir:\$INDEX_ROOT:\$I30

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Okay. Thanks, but this is way too command-level for me. Not gonna work.