Help! regards to NTFS 3g

Use the PC to get the data off the NTFS drive.

Uninstall MacFUSE & NTFS-3G using their uninstaller.

Reboot and hook up the now empty external drive.

Go to Disk Utility, select the drive Erase > Security Option Zero and format exFAT. (it's in your Applications/Utlilites folder)

The exFAT drive format can be read by both Mac's and PC's with the latest operating systems and updates. No 4GB file size limit like FAT32. No need to install software on any machines what so ever.

If you have Windows XP, there is a free exFAT download from their site.

MacFUSE hosed my Mac too, I luckily clone my boot drive using the free Carbon Copy Cloner, so it's just a option boot away from recovery.

So I don't know or used their MacFUSE uninstaller.

MacFUSE is a hack by a Google employee, Apple changes things and it likely broke it.

If this helped you, please click the approproate response, thank you. 🙂

hieufromhawthorn wrote:

Thank you for your reply. Could you please show me how can i choose security option zero and format exFAT ?

In your Applications > Utilities folder (or use Spotlight in the upper right hand corner) search for Disk Utility.

On the left will be your drives, you can't erase the OS X your booted from so that leaves the other one, the external drive. Select it and click Erase > the format to select is exFAT >Security Option > Zero All Data from the drop down window that appears.

The Zero Erase takes about a hour per 500GB and ensures anything left behind is completely wiped off, including malware.

It also maps off any bad sectors you have left on the drive before you lay data on them, ensures better writes and reads.

Once this is completed you can quit. The drive should appear on the desktop where you can drag and drop files between computers no problem.

Your Mac's operating system needs to be up to date on 10.6.5 or later. Use the Apple Menu > Software Update to make sure your opearating system is current.

The ability to read and write exFAT format was added in 10.6.5 and later so it's rather recent change, and likely why you were directed to use the NTFS-3G/MacFUSSE to begin with. Now it's no longer needed.

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For the records: The Early 2011 MacBooks boot the 64 bit kernel. NTFS-3G is not compatible with that, which causes the error you saw. You could make it work by booting the 32 bit kernel. Press and hold "3" and "2" during startup to do so. But as you have already found a solution in exFAT, that's probably not neccessary.

Vista with SP1 and after can read exFAT.

Take the data back off onto the Mac, then take the drive to the Vista machine and format it exFAT there, then take it to the Mac and see if it works that way.

Sorry about the run around, but Mac's and PC's really never got along perfectly.