I made an NTFS partition with Tuxera and now my disk seems to be unreadable

[iRock1]

I have a 1 TB WD My Passport Disk. I used to have two partitions on it—one for Time Machine backups and the other to carry files around (both are/were in HFS+). However, one day I made a third partition in NTFS using Disk Utility and Tuxera.

Until this point everything was great. I was able to put some movies in the NTFS partition and then I connected the disk to my TV, which played the video files without a problem.

The big trouble comes when I connect the disk to my Mac. OS X displays the following message:

If I click "Initialize...", Disk Utility opens up. After a while I'm able to see my external disk, though the HFS+ partitions appear greyed out. Then I run First Aid, but after the process is complete nothing changes.

While you could think of a hardware problem, I need to notice that the disk was working perfectly until I made the NTFS partition.

I deleted Tuxera from my Mac (ctrl+click on the preferences pane) and restarted my machine, hoping that would fix anything, but no.

Ideas? I just want to get to my HFS+ partitions and rescue my files!

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UPDATE: Happy ending. See: #7

 

[JohnDS]

In Disk Utility, click on WD Passport 074, rather than on the Time Machine Volume and then run First Aid.

 

[iRock1]

In Disk Utility, click on WD Passport 074, rather than on the Time Machine Volume and then run First Aid.

That's what I did in fact. But nothing changes.

 

[Fishrrman]

I'm sorry I don't have more advice to offer, but in the future, I would not "mix" Mac and non-Mac formats on the same physical drive.

Things just seem to go easier that way...

 

[ScoobyMcDoo]

What happens when you choose one of the HFS+ partitions and click "mount"?

 

[iRock1]

What happens when you choose one of the HFS+ partitions and click "mount"?

Absolutely nothing .

 

[iRock1]

Update:

You wouldn't guess, but at the end I solved this issue simply using the old Disk Utility app in Yosemite (verify disk and then repair disk). Apparently the new Disk Utility app in El Capitan doesn't do ****.

Glad I was wise enough to update my MacBook only and leave my iMac on Yosemite. Well, there you have another evidence that the latest release of OS X is pure crap.