Looking for a good (preferably free) driver or way to enable read and write access to an NTFS hard drive from OS X 10.9.
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Possible Duplicate:          Coming from Windows (Vista/7), I have a few NTFS formatted Hard Drives.  Are there any programs to make OS X write to NTFS?   Do I have any options aside from installing Windows via Boot Camp and reformatting?
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I want to upgrade my OS X to Yosemite from Lion and also upgrade my HDD to a SSD but im worried about loosing my programs since I don't have the installers or serial keys. Specifically Adobe cs5 master collection and iWork.
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I received a new HDD from my uncle, RAW file system. Tried CHKDSK, but it didn't work because of the RAW file system.      Update  I ran SpinRite 6 overnight and it got nowhere. Stayed at 0% for the whole 10 hours. SpinRite also gave me a notification that this drive is most probably toast. I think I am going to throw this drive away.
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I have an NTFS partition. The idea is I can use this for data on either Ubuntu Mate or Windows 10 dual boot. It worked fine when I first installed Mate, but recently I no longer have the delete option when I right-click on a file or folder. The delete key does nothing. I also can't paste into the partition (Paste greyed out). It's as if the whole partition is read-only. In Gparted, the partition is marked with a key. Does this mean anything? I'm not aware of having changed anything, however, Windows recently did a big update - have they hijacked my drive?  I've read related posts, but people speak of returned errors - I have no errors, just nothing happens. Also, suggested solutions seem far too technical for what must surely be a simple tick-a-box fix!  Please note - for me the Terminal is where I get off a train and Sudo sounds like a Japanese noodle dish. ;) GUI's preferred if possible! Thanks for your patient help!
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I was able to read and write NTFS filesystems normally in Mountain Lion, but after the upgrade this stopped to work.  I installed ntfs-3g and fuse4x using homebrew in Mountain Lion and followed the instructions displayed by homebrew to finish the installation of fuse4x kernel extension.  To try to solve this problem I removed ntfs-3g, fuse4x and fuse4x-kext and reinstalled them. But this didn't solve my problem.  Does anyone know how to solve this? Thanks.
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I had to format a USB hard drive to ext3 to use it with a Linksys nas box.  Now I can't read the hd when I unplug it from the nas and plug it directly into my Windows 7 computer.  (The computer accesses the nas over a wireless connection, so I like to plug the hd directly into my pc when transferring large files.)  How can I leave the hd formatted with ext3 and yet be able to access it (read/write) when I plug it directly into my pc?
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I feel like this is a really simple and fundamental function that Windows should have, but so far Google has been telling me it isn't possible.  How can I mount an NTFS partition read-only in Windows?     works! (Thanks.)  Additional info about diskpart:   If you have multiple volumes in a disk, neither detail vol nor attr vol shows the correct read-only status. It shows the read-only status of the last modified volume. Try these: sel vol 1, attr vol set readonly, sel vol 2, attr vol clear readonly, sel vol 1. Now detail vol shows that volume 1 is not read-only, but it actually is. If you modify a volume with Linux's ntfs-3g and then bring it to Windows, it cannot be mount read-only. If you run attr disk set readonly, none of the disk's volume can be mounted.
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I have tried using nLite and downloading the "AMD SATA RAID/SATA AHCI Driver (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy)" from the motherboard website and it still wont "find any hard disk drives installed in your computer".  I have tried hitting F6 and going through that but it wont load the drivers that way either  Motherboard: Gigabyte ga-ma785gm-us2h (rev 3.3) Hard drive: Western Digital Caviar black
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I had an old laptop. When it got complaint I removed its hard drive and started using it as external hard disk. It has an 80 GB of memory allocation for the windows C drive partition. But now i don't need that partition anymore. But the problem is I am not able to access that drive to paste files into it. How can I make read and write permission to this drive using terminal?
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I have a 2 TB HFS+-formatted external hard drive that got dropped a couple of days ago while transferring files onto a Macbook Pro.  Now the drive's partitions won't mount.  Disk Utility can see the drive, but doesn't recognize that it has any partitions.  I've tried using  to recover files off of it, but it couldn't find anything.  In addition, our local computer repair shop said they couldn't find anything on there either.  I know that I could ship the drive off to someone like , but I was hoping for a cheaper option (since they start at about $500 for the attempt).  Is there something else I could try on my own?  Would  be able to help with something like this?
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I have a Mac Mini with a few external drives connected that I use as a home server. Normally the Eject buttons next to the drive icon are really handy as they let me eject an external drive very easily (compared to Windows for instance).  However on a Mac server, this comes as a detriment. I have some pretty mission critical stuff on external drives and there's a lot of scripts etc. I have set up that are dependent on those drives being there. Being able to so easily accidentally eject those drives makes me rather uneasy.  So far I've just chosen to not show them in the Finder sidebar, that way at least they're a bit harder to eject. However that isn't very ideal because: (1) I need to go to my Mac in the sidebar to access the drives rather than have the drives accessible directly and (2) the eject buttons still show in open/save dialogue boxes for those drives.  Ideally, I'd like a way for them to behave the way internal drives do: no option to easily eject from the finder, but still possible to unmount through disk utility.
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Never fancied enabling FileVault on previous Macs but now I'm running OS X on an SSD. Is there a noticeable decrease in speed?
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I know in the past OS X did not support indexing network drives.   Has this changed?   Do more recent versions of OS X such as Yosemite support spotlight on network drives?  I am thinking of investing in a NAS storage device such as Synology and spotlight support is a requirement.  Since I have lots of data on my external drives right now.
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I have 2 non-system SATA HDDs which are not mapped to a dir and normally kept 'offline' on my Windows 7 OS. Even this way they spin up from time to time, including but not limited to windows update times.  It's easy on Linux but, what is the best way to spin down a HDD on demand using as small 3rd party software as possible on Windows? Or even, is there a 3rd party software allowing this?
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I currently have a Windows 10 pen drive that isn't in use at the moment. I try to format the drive on disks, and the terminal using mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1 and all I get is;  mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24) mkfs.vfat: unable to open /dev/sdc1: Read-only file system   Is there a way to format this to any file system? I'd like to use it for other things.
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I want to mount/unmount my google drive using with a key binding without having to open a terminal. How can I set this up?
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I've searched and tried a lot of stuff but still can't get it to work.  I was able to use my seagate HDD properly last week but now it doesn't mount. I tried plugging it to a PC &amp; another mac, it works fine on both. The reasons could be    Updating OS to macOS Sierra  Not ejecting properly Installed sims4 with wineskin   Things I have tried.   From disk utility clicking on mount &amp; first aid.  From terminal writing: diskutil mount disk2s1 &amp; diskutil mount readOnly disk2s1 both resulted with this  Volume on disk2s1 failed to mount If the volume is damaged, try the "readOnly" option From terminal writing: diskutil repairDisk disk2s1 &amp; diskutil repairVolume disk2s1. Restarted mac in normal mode &amp; safe mode. /private/var/log/install.log from here found some logs but don't know what to do with them.  Switch USB ports &amp; retry. A couple of other things.