restoring write permissions to locked ntfs drive

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restoring write permissions to locked ntfs drive

Hi all,

Recently when i mounted my NTFS drive on my macbook pro, i realised that it has lost its write permissions and has regressed to a read-only drive. I am fully aware that NTFS is not natively supported by OSX for writing, and have used NTFS 3G, an external application obtained from the internet which is no longer being supported to work around this. I have also tested another, smaller 500GB NTFS drive, both WD, and the other drive has both read and write permissions. After comparing the two drives on Disk Utility, i noticed that the bigger 1TB drive does not have owners enabled on disk utility and has all disk utility functions grayed out ( verifying hard disk, verfying disk permissions, etc), so i am unable to use disk utility tool to resolve this issue. Furthermore, a preliminary google search revealed that my problem can be attributed to unknowingly removing my external drive without first ejecting it from the mac, which caused the NTFS drive to lock itself up, but the solutions provided on the net do not work, (eg sudo commands on terminal).

If anyone has a solution to this issue, please kindly reply me asap as i require writing to my drive urgently. Thanks!

MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Apr 30, 2014 8:20 AM

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a brody

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Apr 30, 2014 8:41 AM in response to Taeyeonist

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3003 offers several solutions.

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May 8, 2014 9:07 AM in response to a brody

While I fail to comprehend how that article is related as it involves a whole lot of backing up and formatting and is really troublesome, i have managed to come up with my own solution - simply plugging it back into my windows computer, restoring some permission settings and then removing it safely this time solved the issue. What i failed to solve was the issue of the drive disconnecting independently by itself, this being an intermittent and recurring issue, but the occurence does not seem to be often enough to trouble me. I guess i'll just have to minimize usage of my drives on my mac and use it mainly for my windows desktop instead, solves the problem. It's a lot better than wasting time shifting all my data away then formatting the drive to something both can read, but with severe limitations.

Nevertheless, thank you for taking the effort to reply. You have my sincere gratitude.

Regards

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a brody

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May 8, 2014 10:51 AM in response to Taeyeonist

It explains that NTFS is read only to Macs, unless they are connected to PCs, or you install a special NTFS writable driver on your Mac or use command line to mount the NTFS in a writable method.

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