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Q: mounting an external hard drive on Mavericks

Hey folks,

 

My external USB hard drive won't mount after upgrading to Mavericks. I had formatted it with NFTS 3G and MacFuse before and it worked perfectly on Snow Leopard. Any tips or tricks?
Thank you in advance!

OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 4:53 AM

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  • by Moshik008,

    Moshik008 Moshik008 Jun 17, 2014 1:08 AM in response to HappyScotsLass
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    Jun 17, 2014 1:08 AM in response to HappyScotsLass

    thanks!

    not sure i understood -

    onyx might install some virus?

    if i format the hard drive will i be able to read it on PC? (what can i do if i used to be PC user with lotsof data on some hard drives?

     

    the disk utility DOES see the hard drive THE MAC DOESNT READ IT...

    (PC does)

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  • by dang314,

    dang314 dang314 Jun 17, 2014 1:21 AM in response to Moshik008
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    Jun 17, 2014 1:21 AM in response to Moshik008

    when you format choose exfat, both machines can read and write to it.

     

    NTFS is a windows specific format. the mac can read it but not write to it

     

    especially if there are already underlying issues with the formatting

     

    just copy data to the windows pc, then format as exfat then all should be well.

  • by Moshik008,

    Moshik008 Moshik008 Jun 18, 2014 2:53 AM in response to dang314
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    Jun 18, 2014 2:53 AM in response to dang314

    thanks you very much dang for all the info.

    i have been toldthat exaft mught not write all data.. are you familiar with that?

     

    i used to be  a PC user ever since..and i am still a PC user using the hard drives for backing-up data and archive (pics/ docs etc')

    so i need a solution for some older hard drives which were used by PC. and will be used both on mac and PC in present and future.

    i am a new user with the mac (i am a photographer, using it for Photoshop and with parallel installed i also use the Office 2013)

    so i need a good and permanent stable solution, for current hard drives that contain files and future hard drives.

    if the best solution will cost me some $$ let it be.. as long it will stop my head heck

    thanks again!


  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Jun 19, 2014 5:12 AM in response to Moshik008
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    Jun 19, 2014 5:12 AM in response to Moshik008

    Moshik008 wrote:

     

    thanks you very much dang for all the info.

    i have been toldthat exaft mught not write all data.. are you familiar with that?

     

    i used to be  a PC user ever since..and i am still a PC user using the hard drives for backing-up data and archive (pics/ docs etc')

    so i need a solution for some older hard drives which were used by PC. and will be used both on mac and PC in present and future.

    i am a new user with the mac (i am a photographer, using it for Photoshop and with parallel installed i also use the Office 2013)

    so i need a good and permanent stable solution, for current hard drives that contain files and future hard drives.

    if the best solution will cost me some $$ let it be.. as long it will stop my head heck

    thanks again!


    Your best solution would be to purchase one of the NTFS extensions for OS X. I’ve used Tuxera and it worked well. I think Paragon is the other well-known one.

    I also used the free NTFS-3G but found it flaky.

     

    The opposite route would be to buy MacDrive for your Windows PC’s. Then format all drives as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). However, that is only available to Windows PC’s that you have installed the MacDrive software.

  • by Moshik008,

    Moshik008 Moshik008 Jun 23, 2014 2:19 AM in response to HappyScotsLass
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    Jun 23, 2014 2:19 AM in response to HappyScotsLass

    good news for seagate users:

    i found the NTFS driver for mac and 5 seconds simple installing solves the problem

    here is the link:

    http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/ntfs-driver-for-mac-os-master-dl/

    i just wish to find similar driver for WD.

    shame on apple they don't provide it....

    it makes me so frustrated and annoyed.

  • by sredrum,

    sredrum sredrum Oct 18, 2014 3:17 AM in response to anna-con-panna
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    Oct 18, 2014 3:17 AM in response to anna-con-panna

    Hi All.

     

    I had the same issue with a LaCie external hard drive. I have recently upgraded to Yosemite in the hope it would resolve this issue but it didn't.

     

    I then decided to reset my PRAM and this worked thankfully.

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