mounting an external hard drive on Mavericks

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.

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!

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.

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.

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. 🙂