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iMac wont read my 2TB seagate drive

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Zelnaga

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Jun 4, 2010
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Hi guys. Ive just brought an iMac and its not seeing anything on the HDD. Its showing the correct available space but when opening the external HDD on the desktop it just shows up as blank. Can anyone help?
 
Its NTFS and showed up on the desktop but now just installed NTFS-3G, but it still wont read the drives (now its not even showing on desktop). Its saying ntfs-3g could not mount /dev/disk1s1/ at volumes/freeagent goflex drive/

Get the error but since this is my first day on iMac how do i get to the required file path?

/Library/Filesysystems/fuesfs.fs/support/fusefs.kext

Also says check kernal logs or try kextutil((8) the macFUSE file system is not available.
 
OSX/Mac cannot read NTFS formatted drives, so while it recognizes that it is there, none of your files will show. I am guessing you are trying to copy your backup onto your new Mac. You're going to need a Mac/PC compatible formatted drive (FAT32). HFS+ is the Mac standard and NTFS is the PC standard.
 
Yup I installed NTFS-3G the free software to read and write NTFS. Heres the exact problem Ive been getting.

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Ah, I see. I'm not too familiar with that software, so I won't be of any help there.
 
Zelnaga said:
/Library/Filesysystems/fuesfs.fs/support/fusefs.kext

Also says check kernal logs or try kextutil((8) the macFUSE file system is not available.
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A ".kext" is a kernel extension (or driver, in a way) and is what macFUSE uses to add NTFS support. This error message indicates it's likely corrupted, and I'd suggest just re-installing it.
 
bpeeps said:
Ah, I see. I'm not too familiar with that software, so I won't be of any help there.
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Thanks for the help anyway. Anyone help with this problem? It's priority for me to get this external HD operational. I don't fancy installing windows 7 on my first day after spending so much on a mac.
 
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Zelnaga said:
bpeeps said:
Ah, I see. I'm not too familiar with that software, so I won't be of any help there.
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Thanks for the help anyway. Anyone help with this problem? It's priority for me to get this external HD operational. I don't fancy installing windows 7 on my first day after spending so much on a mac.
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Read my post above: reinstall the NTFS-3G drivers.
 
bpeeps said:
OSX/Mac cannot read NTFS formatted drives, so while it recognizes that it is there, none of your files will show. I am guessing you are trying to copy your backup onto your new Mac. You're going to need a Mac/PC compatible formatted drive (FAT32). HFS+ is the Mac standard and NTFS is the PC standard.
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Mac OS X can read NTFS drives just fine. It just can't write to them.

I would recommend using exFat for drives intended to be used between OSX and Windows.
 
Download the latest version of macfuse and reinstall it. I had the same problem and that fixed it.
 
Hi guys. ive uninstalled and reinstalled NTFS-3G with no luck, also redownloaded MACFUSE (from their own website) and still getting the same message.

Anything else I can try? This is the only thing that needs ticking off before I dont have to go back to windows.
 
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