My Mac is unable to mount any external drive which is compatible with windows.

It read the drives but doesn't mount them so they are pretty much useless. It tells me to repair it but the repair option is never available. This only happens for drives which are supposed to be compatible with both windows and macintosh. Plz Help

NTFS formated drives can only be mounted as read only natively under a standard HFS+ journal OSx system.
You can however copy files across to OSx !
BTW OSx will normally automatically mount any drive in finder irrespective of the format . It doesn't try to format them automatically unlike Windows sometimes tries to.
You need to install Macfuse depending on your Osx version to both read and write to NTFS drives and also need to install Macdave on Windows PCs to read and write to HFS+ formatted drives
If you transfer files between both systems regularly make sure you have a FAT/exFAT formatted partition on any shared drive as both OSx and Windows can read and write to this natively.
exFAT is simply FAT updated to allow larger files and partitions than the traditional limitations associated with FAT formats.

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