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NTFS drive does not mount under Lion.

I have just upgraded to Lion. Previously I could mount my NTFS formatted drives. Now I cannot mount any. Disk utility sees the drives but will not mount them. When I revert to 10.6.8, the problems disappear. If there a fix of technique in LION to enable NTFS drives to mount?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 3:35 PM

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Jul 5, 2013 8:06 AM in response to nmondal

I uninstalled NTFS-3G and Macfuse, and tried to follow steps 7 and 8, but I came across this message: Your security preferences allow intallation of only apps from the Mac App Store and blah, blah, blah.


So, doing another searching on the web I found a link to seagate web site, it happens that the external hard drive I'm trying to use is from seagate. I had a go and it worked, although I'm not sure if works for other brands.


http://www.seagate.com/support/external-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/backup-p lus-desk/ntfs-driver-for-mac-os-master-dl/

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Aug 1, 2013 5:58 PM in response to pandanet

no matter what i do I can't see or mount or anything with this drive. the drive is a fresh NTFS format from windows 7 and i'm on a mid 2010 MBP running the most updated version of Mountain Lion.


Can ANYONE please help me? I have over 1T of files i need to get off this drive.

thank you

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NTFS drive does not mount under Lion.

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