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NTFS drive, improper shutdown, angry logfiles, a Mac, and important data :(
contraband
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So, I have a 1TB external drive, and a MacBook Pro. I have the drive formatted NTFS, and I access it in Leopard using Macfuse. The last time this drive was used was by a friend of mine, who decided to just unplug it rather than properly eject it. "I do this all the time, it's fine!" Now my drive won't boot in Leopard. (It's fine in XP, though.) I get this error when I plug it in:
"Media" is the name of the drive
As I said, all the data is accessible fine on my XP partition. But this shows up in Leopard even after I took the drive through a complete proper ejection procedure. Is there any way to fix this on the Mac side of things? Worse comes to worse, I have another external that I can back up to and reformat, but this is about a hundred GB of data which I just cannot lose and I'd like to save that for a last resort (not to mention the transfer times of so much data over usb 2.0...) All I'd like to do is restore Leopard functionality. Can anyone help me? This is where my tech knowledge about hard drives fails me, maybe I can reset the logfiles somehow? My bytes are in your hands
"Media" is the name of the drive
As I said, all the data is accessible fine on my XP partition. But this shows up in Leopard even after I took the drive through a complete proper ejection procedure. Is there any way to fix this on the Mac side of things? Worse comes to worse, I have another external that I can back up to and reformat, but this is about a hundred GB of data which I just cannot lose and I'd like to save that for a last resort (not to mention the transfer times of so much data over usb 2.0...) All I'd like to do is restore Leopard functionality. Can anyone help me? This is where my tech knowledge about hard drives fails me, maybe I can reset the logfiles somehow? My bytes are in your hands
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I'd then slap your friend in the back of the head and never let him borrow my HD again.
1.) You should start up Terminal
2.) Gain access to root (administrator) privileges by typing
sudo -s
This should prompt you to enter your password.
3.) Now for option 2:
mount -f ntfs-3g -o force /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/Media
It should say something like
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0)
WARNING: Forced mount, reset $LogFile.
At this point, you should be able to see your drive as normal, and "eject" it as normal.
I think. Not quite used a Mac before, but this is what I would do on a unix based system.
If you're not keen to try that, try going into XP, and run a scan on the drive. To do this:
1.) Go to "My Computer"
2.) Right click on the external drive, and hit Properties -> Tools (tab) -> Error Checking -> Check Now -> Start