Comments on: Ability to write to NTFS volumes on the Mac

By: Maclord

Maclord — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:01:11 +0000

intsalling NTFS 3G has nothing to do with an external drive disappearing. The only side effect it brings is that the BOOTCAMP partition (if there is any) will now show on the System Preferences > Startup.

You’d have better backed up your stuff using Time Machine, and use Time Machine go back to your last working configuration.

If not applicable, then install a fresh Mac OS X on top of your existing installation (you can do this without having to reformatting the drive) and manage to boot up to your missed file system. You may need to reinstall some of your apps afterwards and collect manually some of your previous user settings to apply to the new config. That being said, you won’t lose any of your existing documents, pics, music or videos – even many of your apps installed prior to the re-installation of the system without formatting will exist and function normally.

By: Orville

Orville — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:51:42 +0000

AND IM USING MAC OSX TIGER 10.4 I NEED THE FILESYSTEM DEFAULT FOLDER AGAIN PLEASE!!!

By: Orville

Orville — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:50:11 +0000

CAN I SOME ONE JUST EMAIL THE filesytem default folder….WOULD THAT WORK AT LEAST TO MOUNT BACK MY DRIVES AND .DMG WHEN I DOWNLOAD THEM??? SOMEONE PLZ HELP URGENT I AM A DJ AND THIS IS REAL BAD 4 ME HELP!!!!

By: Orville

Orville — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:46:35 +0000

Hey isntalled ntfs 3G and mac fuse now i dont see my external drive any more and my .dmg wont mount also with my external because i deleted sum mountable files accidentally when i was trying to uninstall NTFS 3G…PLESE HELP!!!! NOW i cant access my external any more HELP!!!

By: Lance

Lance — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:19:01 +0000

Using “NTFS For Mac”, and it does not enable OS X’s Startup Disk pane to see the Windows partition. From what I understand, the Startup Disk pane is programmed to ignore any partition that isn’t natively mounted by and OS X driver. What we need is a hack for Startup Disk pane to get it to ignore the fact that a partition is not mounted by the OS X driver.

By: ryhen

ryhen — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:21:06 +0000

The bootcamp partition disappears from the startup disk control panel after installing MacFUSE + NTFS 3G – but was also the case with a recent version of Paragon NTFS as well. Paragon offers the Windows partition booting option on its own control panel which shows at the bottom of System Prefs though.

Why on Earth, Apple doesn’t make NTFS read/write a built-in option on the Mac OSX ?

By: Maclord

Maclord — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:55:38 +0000

hello jake,

please refer to the section “Known issues after this installation” where a couple of workarounds are also suggested.

By: jake

jake — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:20:29 +0000

after installing mac fuse and ntfs 3g, I can no longer succeed booting from the ntfs partition.

it doesn’t show up in startup disk control panel.

By: Maclord

Maclord — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:42:51 +0000

The answer to your question should have been ‘yes’ under normal circumstances. However, in my tests with the Paragon NTFS 7.0, installing Paragon’s “MacBrowser” software (bundled with the P. NTFS package) on Bootcamp partition messed up the Mac file system and did not work as expected – i.e. the Mac (HFS+) volume appeared blank (empty) in an attempt to browse it from Windows (I was using XP during the tests) and later I suspected that it could twist the file permissions if not corrupt the entire Mac partition. So I uninstalled and switched back to MacFUSE & NTFS 3G.

By: Ekrem Büyükkaya

Ekrem Büyükkaya — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:49:24 +0000

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