Installer sticks at examining disks

Hello all I have just recently become a mac user, and everything has been going nicely until i tried to install NTFS-3G to allow read and write privileges to an external hard drive I own. The install makes it past the user agreement section, and sticks at the examining drives portion. No matter how long I let it set and work it never makes any progress towards installation. It does this on any program that needs to examine the discs. Any help would be appreciated on this matter because i very badly need to be able to use my external drive, among some other programs for school thanks in advance for any help.

Try reformatting the drive. The partition type should be GUID and the formatting should be Mac OS Extended (Journaled). If that doesn't do the trick try zeroing out the drive using the security button. That will take quite some time but will map out any bad sectors on the disk.
Time Machine will restore to a new hard drive and even to a different Mac.

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