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  1. Fri, 01-23-2009, 02:39 PM #1
    minneyar
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    Macs will not automatically mount NTFS drives that weren't unmounted cleanly. In other words, if he yanked the plug without properly ejecting the drive first, it won't work. I'm guessing that's what the problem is.

    With MacFUSE it is possible to force it to mount a drive that wasn't cleanly unmounted from the command line, but the easy solution is to plug the drive back into a Windows computer, run scandisk on it, and then eject it properly.
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  2. Fri, 01-23-2009, 10:32 PM #2
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    Unfortunately the only Windows PC available won't detect the drive either. The HDD was taken out of a Dell that won't power on. When you plug in the external drive to a PC, it powers on, but no detection and no activity. When you plug it into the Mac, power light comes on but nothing happens.

    So do I need to mount the drive? It's a Mac Air, so whichever OS comes with that.


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