I tried mounting the external hardrive on another mac that runs on snow leopard and it mounts. However when i plug it into my macbook air after i upgraded to lion. It wont' mount anymore, it did before.
This messages pops up
PLEASE HELP. I beg all the geniuses on this community.
Thanks
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
Your screenshot link does not work. So I can only guess what the message is.
On a hunch, if it is a NTFS formatted drive, then the version of MacFUSE you used in Snow Leopard won't work.
You need to upgrade to a version that is Lion Compatible.
Hey thanks for replying, unforutnately i installed MacFUSE but it didn't work. I believe it's a fusefs formatted drive.
Hey a new error messsge apperas now different from the one after i've downloaded macfuse.
did the screen shot work this time?
Using the MicroUSB Drive from my Jawbone Jambox worked! Disk Utility recognized it! (Running MacBook Pro 13" 2011 i5 2.4 GHz)
I see this posting is pretty old but here's my experience, for what is worth.
I bought today a Toshiba Canvio 3.0 1Tb and I have both PC and Mac at home.
For 90 $ at Radio Shack I thought it is a good deal although it did not say on the box very much.
It was formatted NTFS and had some software on it as well as a manual.
I tried to mount it first on my Mac OS 10.7.4.
Without any drivers and with it's own cable it worked at first attempt.
I could copy some music to it and it just worked fine, I could play it.
Then I read the instructions and it says you must install the Tuxera NTFS driver supplied on Canvio to work read/write otherwise will be read-only.
Once I did that I attempted to copy and it shown some activity. Then I decided to reboot as indicated by Tuxera software and after that it only mounted in read-only mode. I tried to deactivate Tuxera, uninstall, reboot, reinstall, reinstall, reboot again, nothing helped. The Toshiba web site did not help at all.
Eventually I thought to try reformatting it and use it with HFS+. I copied all original content somewhere on my Mac for backup then started Disk Utility and opening the Canvio I noticed it offers a format option as Win NT NTFS Tuxera, which I thought to try and that worked indeed. Then I copied the original content back on the newly formatted partition. I can use it perfectly fine on my Windows 7 as well as Mac. It works pretty fast.
My Toshiba Canvio 3.0 won't mount on Lion (2nd Generation Air)
