External Drives Wont mount

Having had my macbook pro for a few years, I decided it was time to get a new MacBook Air! Yay I thought - nice and light, plus loads of hours of working time on without having to be plugged in. I have transfered all of the data and files across from my old Macbook successfully (using the cable between the two macs) and away I go......However, this evening I realised that I needed to get some more information from a couple of my external hard drives (one Toshiba and the other a click free - both 1 TB and both working on my macbook Pro)........it keeps coming up with the same message:
NTFS-3G could not mount /dev/disk1s1
at /Volumes/LF C_FREE because the following problem occurred:
/Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/fusefs.kext failed to load - (libkern/kext) link error; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).
the MacFUSE file system is not available (71)
I have just spent a small fortune on this nice new shiny machine......and have just spend about 4 hours trying to get it to work. I have searched for answers to my problems but without and solutions...please can someone help me. I am running up against deadlines and am now seriously rethinking my purchase......perhaps I should take it back?
I have tried both USB ports - neither can pick up any thing, in disk utilities, I can only see the drive for the clickfree external but am unable to repair it and the samsung drive doesnt show up at all!......when I plug them back in to my mac book pro everything works and all files are there.....
very very upset and desperate to try anything.
OS X Version 10.8.5

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