NTFS external HD help

[sheff]

Hi there. so i just got my first mac, and i have a couple of external HD's that are ntfs formatted with all my music/movies/tv shows on them.

when i first plugged in the hard drive, i was able to read the files but not write to the disk. i thought this was abnormal for macs, so i went to my xp and replugged it in and safely removed hardware and all that. so i did some searching and realize that mac doesnt support ntfs write. so i started to look up different info about it.

i tried this http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archi...rite_to_ntfs_drives.html?CMP=OTC-7G2N43923558

but i think i messed up my system. i tried the fink thing in the terminal with all the commands, but i really didnt know what i was doing, and at one point it ran a script over and over again very fast until i closed it. i also tried that ntfs-3g thing with macfusion but i have no idea what to do with it or how to run it..



my problem now is though, that my mac wont even read the harddrive anymore. at first it just wouldnt pop up in the finder or on the desktop, but wold show up in disk utility..although i could not mount it or anything. now diskutility cant even read it...

i really need some help here, maybe a way to undo what i did with fink or how to uninstall it? any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks so much

-Mike

 

[knightlie]

All that fink stuff probably seriously messed something up. A quick way of getting at it might be to plug a crossover Cat5 lead between the Mac and PC (if they're not already networked) and share the drive on Windows. That'll let you access your files, but as for the Mac not seeing the drive, I'd probably reinstall after trying to install a hack like that.

 

[sheff]

so i just reinstalled mac with the 2 discs that came with the macbook and it still doest read the hard drive at all. could that fink think have seriously messed up my computer?

 

[knightlie]

I doubt it, that sounds like a problem with the drive, not the Mac, if a reinstall didn't fix it. Did you try different USB ports just in case?

Also, plug it into the Windows box and do a full Disk Check on it.

 

[baggss]

No, but it appears that the external is hosed up somehow. I'd reformat it and try again.

 

[sheff]

well i plugged it into the windows xp and it still works fine, ive tried two different hard drives in both slots and its not recognizing. reformatting the hard disks isnt possible...i have over 500 gigs of stuff and no where to back it up.

everything about my first mac was workin out so nicely too...theres gotta be a fix for this.