External NTFS drive missing content! NEED HELP PLEASE!

[Roostafari]

Greetings Folks!

First post and very new to macs.

I just got an imac and love it so far. Have been a pc user (and still am) and have a western digital external drive with crazy info on it that I got running on my mac without having to format it to fat32.

Everything was working perfect up till last night and now I can't access any of the contents on the drive.

It seems that everything is there as the drive only shows 62GB of 500GB free but the folder is empty. 🙁

I tried to run a disk repair using disk utility on my mac but everything is grayed out. I also tried to run a disk check on my pc but windows cant seem to access the drive without wanting to format it first.

Desperately need some advice.

Thanks in advance!

 

[BlueRevolution]

This is something you should be fixing from a Windows computer, not a Mac. Mac NTFS support is very limited, and I don't know of any Mac utilities that will even touch an NTFS drive.

As for how to fix it, I'd ask in a Windows forum somewhere. I don't know much about Windows utilities.

Oh, and welcome to Mac/MacRumors. 🙂

 

[Roostafari]

This is something you should be fixing from a Windows computer, not a Mac. Mac NTFS support is very limited, and I don't know of any Mac utilities that will even touch an NTFS drive.

As for how to fix it, I'd ask in a Windows forum somewhere. I don't know much about Windows utilities.

I tried there first. I cant even open the drive or access it in anyway from a pc. On my mac, the drives recognised and I can open the root folder. Sadly there aer no files or folders in the root as there should be but I can deduce that they are still there bc the free space is what it should be.

I am fluent in windows and have exhausted all possible avenues to get the drive to work on a pc. Am thinking this can only be fixed somehow on my mac.