I have a windows formated external hard drive (NTFS) that I wanted to write to on my mac. So I searched around forums for advice for a while and tried writing a few things in terminal. But it didn't work. In fact, it made it worse. Now my external drive doesn't show up on desktop, or /Volumes. But I can find it in Disk Utilities. Although, the drive won't mount now. So now I can't read or write!
The issue with mounting started after I wrote these in terminal:
cd /sbin
sudo mv mount_ntfs mount_ntfs.orig
ls <<confirm and="" file="" have="" mount_ntfs="" mount_ntfs.orig="" no="" that="" the="" you="">>
sudo chown root:wheel mount_ntfs
sudo nano mount_ntfs
In the nano window I wrote:
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/mount_ntfs.orig -o rw "$@"
conrol X saved, Y and enter
Then I wrote:
sudo chown root:wheel mount_ntfs
sudo chmod 755 mount_ntfs
This is all according to the advice I used from http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/enable-write-for-ntfs-hard-drives-on.html
Scroll down to the newest comment for the terminal commands advice.
After reboot I could no longer mount the external hard drive. So I went back into terminal and deleted the line in nano mount_ntfs #!/bin/sh
/sbin/mount_ntfs.orig -o rw "$@" thinking that might fix it. But it did not.
Can anyone help me figure out how to fix the mounting issue?
When I use terminal: mount it shows:
/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
diskutil list:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 499.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1
1: Windows_NTFS TOSHIBA EXT 1.0 TB disk1s1
The TOSHIBA EXT is the drive that's causing problems.
Also I should probably add that I tried to use terminal before to make it possible to write on the disk. Which also didn't work.
I used fstab file:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
and entered various lines as per advice from online. At first I tried LABEL=TOSHIBA_EXT none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse
which did nothing. I thought I was getting the name of the hard drive wrong. So I went back in and changed it to
UUID=6F0E3B76-834A-4C96-94E8-F9D30D159451 none ntfs rw
This is what caused my hard drive to initially disappear from the desktop. But I could still find it by through open /Volumes or in disk utility. but I could still read but not write on it.
I am giving up on terminal for this issue. I would like to go back to the mac's original settings so I can just use a 3d party app for ntfs writing.
But this problem of not being able to mount it at all is really troubling. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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I guess I should add I'm using OS 10.8.4
The issue with mounting started after I wrote these in terminal:
cd /sbin
sudo mv mount_ntfs mount_ntfs.orig
ls <<confirm and="" file="" have="" mount_ntfs="" mount_ntfs.orig="" no="" that="" the="" you="">>
sudo chown root:wheel mount_ntfs
sudo nano mount_ntfs
In the nano window I wrote:
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/mount_ntfs.orig -o rw "$@"
conrol X saved, Y and enter
Then I wrote:
sudo chown root:wheel mount_ntfs
sudo chmod 755 mount_ntfs
This is all according to the advice I used from http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/02/enable-write-for-ntfs-hard-drives-on.html
Scroll down to the newest comment for the terminal commands advice.
After reboot I could no longer mount the external hard drive. So I went back into terminal and deleted the line in nano mount_ntfs #!/bin/sh
/sbin/mount_ntfs.orig -o rw "$@" thinking that might fix it. But it did not.
Can anyone help me figure out how to fix the mounting issue?
When I use terminal: mount it shows:
/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
diskutil list:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 499.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk1
1: Windows_NTFS TOSHIBA EXT 1.0 TB disk1s1
The TOSHIBA EXT is the drive that's causing problems.
Also I should probably add that I tried to use terminal before to make it possible to write on the disk. Which also didn't work.
I used fstab file:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
and entered various lines as per advice from online. At first I tried LABEL=TOSHIBA_EXT none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse
which did nothing. I thought I was getting the name of the hard drive wrong. So I went back in and changed it to
UUID=6F0E3B76-834A-4C96-94E8-F9D30D159451 none ntfs rw
This is what caused my hard drive to initially disappear from the desktop. But I could still find it by through open /Volumes or in disk utility. but I could still read but not write on it.
But this problem of not being able to mount it at all is really troubling. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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I guess I should add I'm using OS 10.8.4