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Suspect that Hard Drive is corrupted
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 554907" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I've done this same thing on my Mac to get write-access to my Windows partition, and what you are experiencing is normal. Here's what is happening as best as I understand and can explain....</p><p> </p><p>Normally, OS X can only read an NTFS partition, and it treats such partitions like a mountable, external drive. Thus, when you have the Finder configured to show external drives on your Desktop (unless that's automatic... I forget and am at work at moment), your Windows parition will show up there. After getting write-access using NTFS-3G, OS X now sees that partition as a native, internal drive/partition. You can still access the partition... it's just not going to show up on the Desktop now unless you enable the Finder option to show Hard Drives on the Desktop. You can access it otherwise by a Finder window and navigating back "up" till you get a listing of all connected drives and such.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 554907, member: 38864"] I've done this same thing on my Mac to get write-access to my Windows partition, and what you are experiencing is normal. Here's what is happening as best as I understand and can explain.... Normally, OS X can only read an NTFS partition, and it treats such partitions like a mountable, external drive. Thus, when you have the Finder configured to show external drives on your Desktop (unless that's automatic... I forget and am at work at moment), your Windows parition will show up there. After getting write-access using NTFS-3G, OS X now sees that partition as a native, internal drive/partition. You can still access the partition... it's just not going to show up on the Desktop now unless you enable the Finder option to show Hard Drives on the Desktop. You can access it otherwise by a Finder window and navigating back "up" till you get a listing of all connected drives and such. [/QUOTE]
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