Re: [Avid-L2] one NTFS drive not read by Mac, but another one is?

Okay, I had ideas, but then reread your post and realized they were
all covered. I would not stress over this too much. I suspect the
drive had a problem that needed repair, but that's not possible on a
Mac. I've had this problem. Macs will refuse to mount drives that
have anything going on that they don't understand. Very cautious.
While Paragon and NTFS-3g (which I use) can read and write NTFS, they
can't repair it. This probably explains why the drive shows up in
Disk Utility but "repair" is greyed out. OSX knows there is a problem
but can't do anything about it.

Did you try repairing the drive on the PC? It may have also been the
partitioning (rather than the formatting), but that's just a stab.

Cheers,
tod

On Jun 3, 2010, at 9:28 AM, kenton.vannatten wrote:

> I picked up a 1TB Lacie external from a client on Tuesday, they had
> captured all of the material onto it for me etc. The drive is
> formatted NTFS, I'm on a Mac. My intent was to copy all of the media
> files over to my RAID on my Mac and put their drive on the shelf
> until I am through with it.
>
> I know that Macs can read NTFS (and to write to NTFS I use Paragon),
> however when I plugged in their drive to my system I got the
> message: "The device could not be read by this computer" and I was
> given choices to Initialize, Ignore or Eject.
>
> I plugged the drive into my PC and it read it just fine. I plugged
> another of my own NTFS externals into my Mac and that drive was read
> just fine. Ultimately, I copied the contents off of the client drive
> onto my own NTFS drive, then plugged that one into my Mac and copied
> the files - my mac and PC are no longer networked, in case anyone is
> wondering.
>
> But, my main question is what could be different about the client
> drive that would prevent my Mac from seeing it? Oh, and it did
> appear in Disk Utility. When I Verified the disk, it came back
> reporting an error and suggested I Repair. But, Repair was grayed out.
>
> I believe the client is on Vista, so I'm not sure if when they
> formatted it Vista might have locked it down or something, but it
> certainly made for an interesting couple of hours as I tried to
> figure out what was going on. Anyone else see anything like this?
>
>
>

Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com

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