External Hard Drive - Only one partition is recognized
I have a 1TB GDrive, NTFS formatted, that has been divided into three partitions. When I connect the drive to my Mac Pro, only one partition is recognized. I have tried downloading Tuxera, rebooting the system, and connecting with different cables. Disc Utility only sees the one partition. I have also tried connecting the drive to another Mac with the same results. While this is not a new drive, it has been used for editing on a PC system, this is the first time it has been connected to a Mac. However, this is the first time that my Mac system has had difficulty reading a partitioned PC formatted drive. And when the drive is connected to a PC, all partitions are recognized and all are read as being healthy.
Any ideas on how to solve this issue would be appreciated!
Mac OS only recently added the ability to resize partitions. With Windows there are so many options, tools, and types of partitions; including extended volumes, non-destructive ability to add a drive to and create mirror and stripe RAID.
If you don't have Windows and don't have MacFuse +3G or Paragon NTFS driver... but at least Windows will let you see, or burn one of the Linux type boot CDs to troubleshoot or more.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
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2011-07-21 18:52:34 -0500: Disk Utility started.
2011-07-21 18:52:59 -0500: Verify and Repair volume “disk1s3”
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Filesystem verify or repair failed.
2011-07-21 18:53:29 -0500:
2011-07-21 18:53:39 -0500: Verifying volume “disk1s3”
Starting verification tool: 2011-07-21 18:53:39 -0500
2011-07-21 18:53:45 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2011-07-21 18:54:15 -0500: Invalid B-tree node size
2011-07-21 18:54:15 -0500: Volume check failed.
2011-07-21 18:54:15 -0500: Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.2011-07-21 18:54:15 -0500:
2011-07-21 18:54:15 -0500: Disk Utility stopped verifying “disk1s3” because the following error was encountered:
Filesystem verify or repair failed.
2011-07-21 18:54:15 -0500:
2011-07-21 18:54:53 -0500: Name : disk1s3
Type : Volume
Disk Identifier : disk1s3
Mount Point : Not mounted
File System : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : FireWire
Device Tree : /PCI0@0/PCIB@1E/FRWR@3/node@d04ba40b0627a7/sbp-2@c000/@0:3
Writable : Yes
Capacity : 931.4 GB (1,000,070,627,328 Bytes)
Owners Enabled : No
Can Turn Owners Off : Yes
Can Be Formatted : Yes
Bootable : Yes
Supports Journaling : Yes
Journaled : No
Disk Number : 1
Partition Number : 3
My hard appears on the desktop of my other computer but has no files on it and still will not pop up and my macbook. How screwed am I?See the pink box in #6 of Using Disk Utility.
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Is the friend's external drive where you said these files are, correctly formatted
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If you copy one of the QuickTime files into a folder, in your computer and try
to run it from there, does it work at that point? It may not. Could be the drive
you borrowed from a friend has some other issue; perhaps creator account
and permissions may also be limited by how the content was added there.
There is way too much missing information for me to guess, but I wonder about
how the hardware was set up and if the files are actually available to your Mac.
The QuickTime support page itself should be a portal to more information...
QuickTime
The above link is part of this larger section:
http://www.apple.com/support/mac-apps/
Perhaps someone will see this ASC discussion thread later in the day (2AM here)
and maybe can offer a more direct reply. There are several articles in Apple Support
database for applications and other items (such as QuickTime) & the support site is
searchable. Sometimes the database is hard to find exact articles or topics, though.
Hopefully the issue is not too difficult to determine the cause...
Good luck & happy computing!
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