Questions tagged [ntfs]
New Technology File System, a data format for storage devices under Microsoft Windows
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Boot Camp Assistant stuck on creating partition due to EFI formatted as NTFS
Boot Camp Assistant is stuck on ‘create a partition’. I have followed the guide as answered in the question Boot Camp Assistance is stuck on create a partition? but it didn't work after step 8. After ...
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Missing space on GPT drive sharing FAT and APFS volumes
I have a 500GB SSD with a 280GB NTFS volume, and a 180GB APFS container. The output from diskutil and gdisk are below.
I resized the NTFS volume to 280GB from 300GB using the disk mgmt MMC in Win7. ...
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How to edit files on/copy to an NFTS external hard drive? [duplicate]
I've got a WD MyBook external hard drive formatted in NTFS with files on it. How can I edit files already on it as well as paste files to it?
I've installing Mounty and when I try to re-mount it read-...
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External HDD not properly recognized
Today I connected my external HDD (WD elements) to my MBP and it was not recognised properly. The disk has two partitions, one an NTFS partition with some files and the other a Veracrypt partition.
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NTFS drive isn't writable even after installing Fuse
I have installed fuse using steps which are linked below in an article. Each and every step was successful but after mounting my WD external drive, still it was not writable. Everywhere I found same ...
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Bootcamp assistant hides partitions to windows?
macBook pro mid 2014, High Sierra, Windows 10, Ubuntu
I used Bootcamp assistant to resize one unique partition to make space for Windows NTFS partition, then I used Windows disk manager to resize ...
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How do I Undelete a Bootcamp drive back to NTFS
I have a recently formatted an (MS-DOS)Fat disk inside my mac.
The problem is, this was my BOOTCAMP drive formatted in NTFS.
I have read a bit on how to use fsck to (undelete) a drive and watched a ...
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How to create exFAT or NTFS RAID 1
I am looking for a way to create a RAID 1 Volume from macOS Sierra with a format that will be readable from both Mac and Linux.
Using DiskUtility I can not seem to find a way to format the RAID in ...
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Unable to mount NTFS external HD
I have a 1TB Samsung M3 that I mostly use to read files, and not writing. I've always used it as read-only (the standard way OS X will mount NTFS disks) and never had any problem.
However today I had ...
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Finder takes forever to open a directory with a lot of subfolders on NTFS or NAS
On my external NTFS HDD I have my music collection with over 3800 artists in it, which is structured like this: /Music/Artist/Year - Album/, each artist as a separate sub-folder. When I try to open ...
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External USB NTFS drive not recognized in macOS High Sierra
My external USB drive, formatted as NTFS, is no longer being recognized in High Sierra.
As soon as I plug it in I get the following error message:
I tried running First Aid in Disk Utility but it ...
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Time Machine + PC backup to single external hard drive
Does "backing up" read/write data to a hard drive?
I'd like to backup both my Mac (using Time Machine) & my PC to a single 3 TB Seagate external hard drive using the USB port on my wireless ...
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Format a partition to NT and lose access to partition
I have a 2 TB external drive.
It contains two volumes (disk2s1 & disk2s2):
~ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
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How should I recover my NTFS partition that I have accidentally deleted on my Mac
I have a 2 TB external HDD that was divided in 2 partition:
First partition: 280 GB
Second partition: 1720 GB
I accidentally delete the second partition.
Here are several steps that I already did;
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Can't see external HDD partition in Disk Utility
I have a TB external HDD divided in 2 partition:
First partition: 280 GB
Second partition: 1720 GB
Initially, both partitions were NTFS.
Then, I formatted the first partition to macOS Extended FS, ...
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SanDisk SSD Extreme 500 not detected by macOS High Sierra
I have an external SSD device which is randomly mounted in my MacBook Pro with macOS High Sierra (anyway, I had this problem even in Yosemite, it is not OS related).
I've formatted the SSD with ...
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Paragon NTFS app version problem, how to update?
I have a little problem (not me, a friend).
He bought a 1TB HDD with some service files, including Paragon NTFS 11.3.11 (he bought this HDD with his Mac, which shipped with Mac OS X version 10.10 or ...
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Can macOS High Sierra write to NTFS external drives?
I have updated my MacBook Pro to macOS High Sierra 10.13. I previously used Paragon NTFS but now it's not working so I uninstalled it. However I noticed I can still read and write to my external hard ...
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Resized Boot Camp partition from within Windows - Mac HDD with OS X is no longer bootable
I decided to Resize my Boot Camp partition so I freed up 100GB from OS X and used EaseUS to "merge" my C:\ drive on Windows with that 100GB floating space (yes it was a mistake..)
Upon restarting, ...
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After upgrading to High Sierra NTFS format mobile HDD fails to load
I encountered a problem after upgrading to High Sierra. I have a mobile hard drive which is NTFS formatted (USB 3.0).
When I connect my hard drive to the computer, it doesn't appear in Finder. It can ...
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How to read/write from/to a NTFS formatted External HDD on MacOS high Sierra?
With the introduction of APFS in MacOS high sierra I am unable to read/write from/to my external HDD which is formatted in NTFS. I need this case because I regularly switch between windows and mac and ...
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Can you read and write from and to APFS under High Sierra to FAT external hard-drives?
Like many I have backups on external hard-drives, some are in HFS and others are in FAT32 or NTFS.
What happens to those backups with APFS ? I won't be able to access, read and write to or from them ...
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Tuxera NTFS and High Sierra
I just installed High Sierra Developer Beta 8 on my 2015 Macbook Pro and I haven't been able to make Tuxera NTFS work with it. A few searches on Google seem to indicate that it does work with High ...
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Cannot rename into certain file names on NTFS
I have a strange problem. I have an external NTFS disk, and would like to rename a file. However, when I try to rename it in Finder, I get "Error -36". In the Terminal, I get
mv: failed to access '...
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Block level copy a NTFS data drive in a Mac Pro to a new, empty drive
Is there a way I can perform a block level copy of an NTFS data drive (used in Parallels) to a new empty drive?
The source drive is a 750GB NTFS formatted drive used for backing up files from a ...
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Seagate NTFS "image not recognized"
Recently bought a seagate backup plus HDD, and cannot write via MBP. I can see it in disk utility and USB device tree. Under disk utility I can successfully use first aid but still cannot copy files ...
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1TB NTFS Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex external HD won't mount on Mac Mini
I've been using my 2.5" 1TB external GoFlex HD on my Mac and it has been running pretty fine until last week when it stopped mounting out of the blue.
BTW It is NTFS-formatted because from time to ...
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How do I uninstall Tuxera NTFS?
I wanted to remove the NTFS support I installed using Tuxera NTFS. When I checked out my preference pane, the option seems to have been greyed out. How do I uninstall it now?
I tried disabling it but ...
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mount NTFS for read/write failed, it worked before upgrading to 10.12.4
I was able to mount NTFS drives for both read and write in OS X 10.12.3. But in 10.12.4, it failed
In this example, I used the OS X native NTFS driver. (I used NTFS-3G on Mac before but it was too ...
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How to mount VeraCrypt full disk encrypted volume in read write mode under macOS?
I am able to mount VeraCrypt full disk encrypted volume under macOS Sierra, but I am not able to write to it. The VeraCrypt disk shows read-only as false, but I don't have permission to write. The ...
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How can I configure write-enabled auto-mounting of NTFS drives?
I am using macOS Sierra 10.12.3
I'm new to Macs and just encountered the problem, that Macs don't open ntfs formatted external drives by default.
Well, since I am not new to linux, I just added the ...
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Copy single file with I/O errors
I would like to copy a file from one disk (HDD with filesystem NTFS) to another (SSD with ExFAT, if it matters).
The problem occurs in the middle of the copy process, showing me the following message:
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How to enable NTFS 3G? [duplicate]
It is a common issue Mac users, when you try open NTFS external storage you allowed only read mode. And of course there are some solution. One of them it is NTFS 3G - free alternative.
I followed ...
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Restore files after changing disk format from NTFS to HFS+
My friend had an external drive with NTFS format. She started using iOS, so she formatted it to HFS+ using iOS Disk Utilities. She had realized her mistake and unplugged the drive just after ...
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Rsync re-copying all files
I use ParagonNTFS on my Mac that I can write to ntfs drives.
I have two very large NTFS drives that I try to keep in sync. I'd like to be able to do this quickly with rsync:
rsync -rvh --delete /...
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State of NTFS Support at OSX 10.9.5
I acquired an external hard drive that came preformatted with NTFS. My MAC quietly mounted it read only. After some conversations with google, I discovered that MAC couldn't write NTFS by default, but ...
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NTFS partition on external HD not recognized or mounted on El Capitan or Sierra, even with latest Paragon or Tuxera
I have a mid-2013 Air 11" with El Capitan just upgraded to Sierra.
I have an external Seagate USB 3 HD with GUID partitioning scheme, an HFS+ partition I boot off, and an NTFS data partition.
The HD ...
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NTFS Read/Write Broken Under El Capitan? [duplicate]
I'm trying to enable macOS El Capitan's built in read/write support for NTFS, but it doesn't seem to be working. First of all; I'm aware it's not the fastest, and no officially supported, but my needs ...
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ExFat HDD changed to NTFS after power interrupt
I installed on my iMac with Sierra the Paragon NTFS tool. I copied some files from NTFS to the ExFat partition and then suddenly the mac was hanging and rebooting. I was sure it wasn't good for the ...
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Mount FAT32 partition (external drive) on Mac
I have an external disk drive of 2TB with two partitions, one NTFS and another with FAT32 format.
The NTFS partition is automatically mounted when i plug the device using Paragon NTFS but I don't ...
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NTFS and Veracrypt VS HFS+ Encrypted?
I want to create a backup disk where I occasionally connect it to my macOS and copy important things manually.
I may also connect this disk to Windows in rare cases.
I also want to encrypt the disk/...
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Mac Pro (Desktop) missing NTFS SATA Drive in VMware Fusion Boot Camp
Background:
I have a Mac Pro early-2008 DESKTOP :) with 3 HDD installed:
1 SATA OSX journaled HDD
1 SATA SSD partitioned with my OSX and Bootcamp for Windows 10
1 SATA NTFS formatted drive for use ...
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Location of /etc/fstab in El Capitan
I want to activate the NTFS support.
But I can't find the /etc/fstab on my mac.
osx 10.11.5 El Capitan
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After update OS X EI Capitan, external hard disk format changed
I always use the same external hard disk on my Mac formatted as OS X Extended (Journaled). After upgrading my OS, it's recognized as NTFS volume now.
What should I do?
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"Operation can't be completed because item with name already exists" error with Paragon NTFS
I reinstalled Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 on my 2013 MacBook Pro, today, and I've been having an issue copying files from my NTFS formatted external drive using Paragon NTFS. This issue was not ...
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NTFS appears every time
Every time I boot my Mac, an "NTFS for Mac OS X" window appears.
In the settings I can't change this.
Here is the window
I have El capitan 10.11.4
I found this:
To resolve the issue you ...
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Can I use the free space on an NTFS Hard Drive to make a "Mac OS Journaled" partition to use as a backup space?
I have a 1 TB NTFS HDD which has 350GB free space, how would I format that 350GB to use it as a backup space for my MacBook?
diskutil list output:
/dev/disk1 (external, physical):
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How to share an iTunes library between Mac & Windows?
i have two SSDs and one HDD in my computer. One SSD runs OS X and one SSD runs Windows. On the HDD i have my iTunes Library and Music Files. I want to use the same library on both OSs.
I used this ...
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How can I change an NTFS Volume UUID?
I just upgraded my Mac to Mac OS X El Capitan and I wanted to update my Windows 7 to Windows 10.
But, before that, I need to make a backup of my Windows partition.
As I've done it before, I have a ...
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Is there any way (software) to defrag NTFS on Mac?
I have a lot of external hard disk drives, mainly formatted in NTFS since I have both Windows and Mac. I know iDefrag, but it only works with HFS hard drives and I was wondering if there are any ...
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