Hi - I was hoping someone with knowledge of drive formats and mac/windows file sharing might be able to help me out.
I have a 1.5TB external hard drive that I have been using to store my data on from my macbook. In order to the drive to be accessible on windows as well, I originally formatted the drive to be ntfs and installed macFUSE and NTFS-3g on my macbook. This setup worked great for several months. I was able to stored my data, documents, music, on the external hard drive from my mac and later connect the drive to a windows pc and use it perfectly.
However, the past few months I have been using the drive exclusively with my Mac and now (since yesterday) when I try to connect it to a windows pc I get an error saying:
I've tried the drive on both a Windows XP machine and Windows 7 - both giving me the same error.
While browsing the web I came across the possibility it might be a permissions issue(???). The file permissions in the 'get info' panel tell me the I have custom access to the drive. Here are a few diagnostic commands a threw into the terminal hoping to give you a better idea of my setup. Also it is probably important to know the drive that is causing me issues is External2.
I would appreciate any help I could get in getting this drive to be accessible in windows. Thanks!
I have a 1.5TB external hard drive that I have been using to store my data on from my macbook. In order to the drive to be accessible on windows as well, I originally formatted the drive to be ntfs and installed macFUSE and NTFS-3g on my macbook. This setup worked great for several months. I was able to stored my data, documents, music, on the external hard drive from my mac and later connect the drive to a windows pc and use it perfectly.
However, the past few months I have been using the drive exclusively with my Mac and now (since yesterday) when I try to connect it to a windows pc I get an error saying:
Code:
I:\ is not accessible.
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
I've tried the drive on both a Windows XP machine and Windows 7 - both giving me the same error.
While browsing the web I came across the possibility it might be a permissions issue(???). The file permissions in the 'get info' panel tell me the I have custom access to the drive. Here are a few diagnostic commands a threw into the terminal hoping to give you a better idea of my setup. Also it is probably important to know the drive that is causing me issues is External2.
Code:
Zuperzz-MacBook:~ Owner$ ls -alO /Volumes
total 24
drwxrwxrwt@ 4 root admin hidden 136 Dec 12 14:27 .
drwxrwxr-t 34 root admin - 1224 Dec 2 09:54 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 root admin - 8192 Aug 16 18:54 External2
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 1 Dec 2 10:03 Macintosh HD -> /
Zuperzz-MacBook:~ Owner$ id
uid=502(Owner) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),204(_developer),100(_lpoperator),98(_lpadmin),81(_appserveradm),80(admin),79(_appserverusr),61(localaccounts),12(everyone),401(com.apple.access_screensharing),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2)
Zuperzz-MacBook:~ Owner$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *250.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 249.7 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.5 TB disk2
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Microsoft Basic Data External2 1.5 TB disk2s2
Zuperzz-MacBook:~ Owner$ df
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 487725344 459514760 27698584 95% /
devfs 237 237 0 100% /dev
map -hosts 0 0 0 100% /net
map auto_home 0 0 0 100% /home
/dev/disk2s2 2929864696 2670864008 259000688 92% /Volumes/External2
I would appreciate any help I could get in getting this drive to be accessible in windows. Thanks!