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<blockquote data-quote="zuperzz" data-source="post: 1152780" data-attributes="member: 145240"><p>Hi - I was hoping someone with knowledge of drive formats and mac/windows file sharing might be able to help me out. </p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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:</p><p></p><p>[CODE]I:\ is not accessible.</p><p>The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.[/CODE]</p><p></p><p>I've tried the drive on both a Windows XP machine and Windows 7 - both giving me the same error. </p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>[CODE]</p><p>Zuperzz-MacBook:~ Owner$ ls -alO /Volumes</p><p>total 24</p><p>drwxrwxrwt@ 4 root admin hidden 136 Dec 12 14:27 .</p><p>drwxrwxr-t 34 root admin - 1224 Dec 2 09:54 ..</p><p>drwxrwxrwx 1 root admin - 8192 Aug 16 18:54 External2</p><p>lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 1 Dec 2 10:03 Macintosh HD -> /</p><p></p><p>Zuperzz-MacBook:~ Owner$ id</p><p>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)</p><p></p><p>Zuperzz-MacBook:~ Owner$ diskutil list</p><p>/dev/disk0</p><p> #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER</p><p> 0: GUID_partition_scheme *250.1 GB disk0</p><p> 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1</p><p> 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 249.7 GB disk0s2</p><p>/dev/disk2</p><p> #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER</p><p> 0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.5 TB disk2</p><p> 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1</p><p> 2: Microsoft Basic Data External2 1.5 TB disk2s2</p><p></p><p>Zuperzz-MacBook:~ Owner$ df</p><p>Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on</p><p>/dev/disk0s2 487725344 459514760 27698584 95% /</p><p>devfs 237 237 0 100% /dev</p><p>map -hosts 0 0 0 100% /net</p><p>map auto_home 0 0 0 100% /home</p><p>/dev/disk2s2 2929864696 2670864008 259000688 92% /Volumes/External2</p><p></p><p>[/CODE]</p><p></p><p>I would appreciate any help I could get in getting this drive to be accessible in windows. Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zuperzz, post: 1152780, member: 145240"] 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: [CODE]I:\ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.[/CODE] 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 [/CODE] I would appreciate any help I could get in getting this drive to be accessible in windows. Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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