Thanks thanks thanks! it worked like a charm. I'm glad I have windows also installed on this thing. I ran scan disk twice and defragged the whole thing. took about 6 hours but it was well worth the wait.
Thanks again. On Aug 12, 2010, at 3:54 AM, Erik Heil wrote: > Hi. > First of all, I'm going to assume that you don't have a RAID setup. If you > did, you'd likely know about it. So, just ignore those errors. To fix this > error, reboot into Windows, enter cmd.exe and when you get to the prompt, > type "chkdsk /F" and the drive letter Windows assigns to it. Windows will > most likely complain about inconsistent entries in the MFT (similar to old > FAT filesystems on floppy disks or other media.) Go ahead and have Windows > fix those errors. When the process is complete, try mounting the filesystem > again. You shouldn't get any errors at this point. Note that Windows is a bit > conservative about displaying errors--in this case ntfs 3G did you a favor. > While not serious, there is a potential for these errors to become much more > serious over time. > > --Erik > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Sarah Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm replying with the error message. it is the following I managed to > reproduce when plugging in the drive. Now mind you this thing works very > well, flawlessly in fact under windows. > > NTFS-3G could not mount /dev/disk1s5 > at /Volumes/Untitled because the following problem occurred: > > $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0). > Failed to mount '/dev/rdisk1s5': Input/output error > NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a > SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows > then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very > important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate > it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g. > /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation > for more details. > > Ok what does this mean? And how can I fix it? > On Aug 11, 2010, at 9:54 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > > > hello. I can access this drive on windows fine but nt on mac. I have ntfs3g > > and macfuse installed A few days ago I received this odd message. i have a > > recording of me troubleshooting but basically I ran chkdsk and rebooted > > twice in to windows then I tried to repair permissions ont he drive with no > > success. Here ya go. the error message happened to be caught on tape. I > > cann ot transcribe it. Here's the clip. feel free to skim. it is kind of > > long. > > > > http://twaud.io/874 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
