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Question: Connect my drive to my mac please!

smithmac_99 — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:40:47 -0800

How do I connect my NTFS hard drive to my new mac?

Based on this question, I yanked my old drives and put them in a USB 2.0 enclosure. I can plug them in to my laptop and they mount fine, but when I plug them into my mac, zippo...What did I do wrong?

By: smithmac_99

smithmac_99 — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:42:34 -0800

Sorry, but i should add that the laptop is a PC.

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:48:07 -0800

Did you do anything crazy with it (MacFUSE) or just plug it in?

Open the Disk Utility. Do you see it? It may simply not be mounting. If so, you'll see it show up in the Disk Utility but it won't appear in the Finder. Knowing whether it is detected at all will help.

By: smithmac_99

smithmac_99 — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:59:55 -0800

caution live frogs: It shows up in disk utility, but won't mount from there. It says to try running disk first aid...?

By: melissam

melissam — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:45:49 -0800

I had the same problem. I temporarily put the files on a PC and formatted the drive to FAT32...then put the files back on and voila! Macs had NTFS. Usually they'll detect them though.

I haven't tried this, but apparently it is possible to make them work together
http://lifehacker.com/software/how-to/readwrite-to-ntfs-drives-on-your-mac-270976.php

By: Mo Nickels

Mo Nickels — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:31:01 -0800

MacFUSE is the way to go, especially with MacFusion, which makes it easier. Instructions for installing both are here. It's quite easy and works very well.