I use a MacBook and a MacBook Pro, both with OS X 10.6.8. I have a 2 TB WD external drive with two partitions, a Mac OS Extended-1.95 TB and a 50 GB NTFS partition. The Windows partition will mount on my MacBook but not on my MacBook Pro, though I can see it greyed out in Disk Utility. Both computers have NTFS-3G and MacFUSE.
I think the problem originated from when I had unmounted the hard drive and then removed the cable a second before the hd had unmounted, with the usual warning about damaging disks.
Upon trying to repair the partition with DU, I get the following response and it doesn't resolve the problem. This is a school computer so I presently do not have root permissions.
Verifying volume WindowsFls
Read defaults value for LOG_LEVEL: 2
Read defaults value for CACHING_ENABLED: 1
Read defaults value for PROBE_DISABLED: 0
Read defaults value for MOUNT_RDISKS_ENABLED: 1
Read defaults value for NFCONV_ENABLED: 1
Read defaults value for ALWAYS_RECOVER: 1
ntfs-3g script invoked with command line "/System/Library/Filesystems/ntfs-3g.fs/ntfs-3g.util" "-v" "/dev/disk1s3"
Invoking user: root
[Verify] Entering function Verify.
** No NTFS file system checks have been implemented yet.
** Reporting that the volume is fine without checking anything.
[Verify] Reporting that the volume is fine, even though that may not be the case (no fs checks performed).
[Verify] Returning from function Verify.
This must be an easy fix since it mounts no problem on the other laptop. Any suggestions on a fix?
(I should also add that the problem mac used to work fine with this partition.)
I think the problem originated from when I had unmounted the hard drive and then removed the cable a second before the hd had unmounted, with the usual warning about damaging disks.
Upon trying to repair the partition with DU, I get the following response and it doesn't resolve the problem. This is a school computer so I presently do not have root permissions.
Verifying volume WindowsFls
Read defaults value for LOG_LEVEL: 2
Read defaults value for CACHING_ENABLED: 1
Read defaults value for PROBE_DISABLED: 0
Read defaults value for MOUNT_RDISKS_ENABLED: 1
Read defaults value for NFCONV_ENABLED: 1
Read defaults value for ALWAYS_RECOVER: 1
ntfs-3g script invoked with command line "/System/Library/Filesystems/ntfs-3g.fs/ntfs-3g.util" "-v" "/dev/disk1s3"
Invoking user: root
[Verify] Entering function Verify.
** No NTFS file system checks have been implemented yet.
** Reporting that the volume is fine without checking anything.
[Verify] Reporting that the volume is fine, even though that may not be the case (no fs checks performed).
[Verify] Returning from function Verify.
This must be an easy fix since it mounts no problem on the other laptop. Any suggestions on a fix?
(I should also add that the problem mac used to work fine with this partition.)
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