Here's some tips that might help people still trying to fix this: 1. Run Disk Utility with the USB drive attached.
.so to use the drive without formatting, users will need to install Seagate's NTFS driver for Mac. With the driver, the Backup Plus can be used interchangeably between Windows and Mac computers. 20 items - 1. Uninstall Paragon NTFS for Mac – the Regular Method. Click Go in the toolbar and select Go to Folder in the drop-down menu. Type ~/Library in the appeared window and click Go.
Is it detected? My drive was, but the partition not recognised. If you can detect the partition you can load it directly by clicking on the path (mount point). If you can't detect/access the detected partitions and your drive was formated to NTFS you can uninstall (go to prefereces) and reinstall the paragon drivers: 4. Retry step 2.
If that works proceed to steps 5 and 6. Fresh OSX yosemite installs (in my case) reset my finder preferences to not display my external drives in finder window sidebars. Click on the 'devices' heading. Also check finder preferences, and make sure external disks options are checked under the 'general' and 'sidebar' tabs (if that's what you want).
That's pretty much all I can contribute to this problem. If this doesn't solve it or you are formatted to OSX journaled, I don't have any more detailed experience in sorting. Does the drive show up after the Mac is up and running?
I can unplug the drive without the stand are warning (the drive was ejected. Blah) and plug it back in to the USB port and then it's seen. My issue is a but different as I'm using it as a Time Machine drive and it's formatted OS X Journaled but I opened a case with Seagate and they are looking at the Macbook / OS X as being the problem. I quote: ' If the drive is not showing up on boot in System Report, this would indicate the Mac is not sending a wake up message to the drive. Try different USB ports to see if it is a specific port causing this issue.
If you have access to any other Macs running Yosemite, try it there to see if the issue follows the drive or is specific to your computer.' I was the one who had the original question and I am not the least bit tech. While I appreciate anyone's help with trying to figure it out, when it comes to going into the 'brains' of my Mac, I don't want to mess anything up. I decided to make an appointment at the Apple Store. I explained the situation and they were able to reformat my driver. It did take a long time as my 20,000 some pictures had to be removed from the external hard drive and then reinstalled back on the hard drive once the drive was reformatted, but it all worked out. I am very happy with the outcome and the knowledge those people have at the Apple Store.
For me it was well worth the trip and the wait. Here's some tips that might help people still trying to fix this: 1. Run Disk Utility with the USB drive attached. Is it detected?
My drive was, but the partition not recognised. If you can detect the partition you can load it directly by clicking on the path (mount point). If you can't detect/access the detected partitions and your drive was formated to NTFS you can uninstall (go to prefereces) and reinstall the paragon drivers: 4.
Retry step 2. If that works proceed to steps 5 and 6. Fresh OSX yosemite installs (in my case) reset my finder preferences to not display my external drives in finder window sidebars.
Click on the 'devices' heading. Also check finder preferences, and make sure external disks options are checked under the 'general' and 'sidebar' tabs (if that's what you want). That's pretty much all I can contribute to this problem. If this doesn't solve it or you are formatted to OSX journaled, I don't have any more detailed experience in sorting.
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After going through all the usually troubleshooting: reset PRAM, reboot iMac, reboot external GoFlex drive, disk utility - repair, even reformatted the drive and sacrificed two years worth of backup data. All did nothing to make the drive writeable.
Drive was readable and was able to copy files off of it prior to reformatting. Reinstalled the Seagate GoFlex Drive Settings package that shipped with the drive. (A 2TB Firewire 800 Model) and rebooted/restarted the iMac. The drive and Time Machine are working fine now. Seems that the desktop adapter required a driver or permission set that is part of the install package.
Again, this needs to be done after the Yosemite Upgrade completes. I'm having the same problem with my encrypted, external USB Seagate drive. I use this drive as my external library for iTunes, iPhoto as well as Time Machine. From what I've read it looks like Yosemite changes the partition table on the external drive. Upon connecting the drive, Finder asks for my password as normal.
After I enter it, the system stays in a frozen state with the password box grayed out. After about 60 seconds (which I assume is a timeout of the software) the password box goes away. Disk Utility can see the external drive and its single partition, but it can't mount the partition. Repair Disk times out after a long time and says it can't fix it, despite all the history that looks like its going well.
Other threads here have suggested a kext utility 2.6.1 (this is a utility that is used for getting a Hackintosh to work). That didn't have any impact on my system.
I've booted the machine to a Mavericks flash drive to run disk utility there and that was no help. I can change the encryption passphrase just fine in disk utility.
This all happened to me as the result of the most recent Yosemite update that I installed yesterday. Not the actual installation of Yosemite. At this point my drive appears hosed until I can find something that can read this new partition style. I've read that it's a difference from the typical journaled hfs+ system we've been used to for so many years to a new 'core storage' system that isn't nearly as compatible. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.
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Three Options RELATED: There are several options for this, and you’ll need to choose one:. Paid Third-Party Drivers: There are third-party NTFS drivers for Mac that you can install, and they’ll work quite well. These are paid solutions, but they’re easy to install and should offer better performance than the free solutions below.
Free Third-Party Drivers: There’s a free and open-source NTFS driver you can install on a Mac to enable write support. Unfortunately, this take a bit of extra work to install, especially on Macs with the new, added in 10.11 El Capitan. It’s slower than paid solutions and automatically mounting NTFS partitions in read-write mode is a security risk. Apple’s Experimental NTFS-Write Support: The macOS operating system includes experimental support for writing to NTFS drives. However, it’s off by default and requires some messing around in the terminal to enable it. It isn’t guaranteed to work properly and could potentially cause problems with your NTFS file system. In fact, we’ve had it corrupt data before.
We really don’t recommend using this. It’s disabled by default for a reason. We highly recommend paying for a third-party NTFS driver if you need to do this as the other solutions don’t work as well and are more work to set up. The Best Paid Third-Party Driver: Paragon NTFS for Mac costs $19.95 and offers a ten-day free trial. It’ll install cleanly and easily on modern versions of macOS, including macOS 10.12 Sierra and Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan. It really does “just work”, so it’s the best option if you’re willing to pay a small amount of money for this feature. You also won’t have to fiddle with terminal commands to manually mount partitions, insecurely mount partitions automatically, or deal with potential corruption as you will with the free drivers below.
If you need this feature, paying for software that does it properly is worth it. We cannot stress this enough.
If you own a Seagate drive, be aware that Seagate offers so you won’t have to purchase anything extra. You could also purchase, which costs $31 and offers a fourteen-day free trial.
But Paragon NTFS does the same thing and is cheaper. The Best Free Third-Party Drivers: FUSE for macOS This method is free, but it requires a good bit of work, and is less secure. To make your Mac automatically mount NTFS partitions in read-write mode, you’ll have to temporarily disable System Integrity Protection and replace one of Apple’s built-in tools with a binary that is more vulnerable to attack. So this method is a security risk. However, you can use FUSE to mount NTFS partitions in read-write mode manually if you don’t mind using the Terminal. This is more secure, but it’s more work. First, download and install it.
Use the default options when installing it. RELATED: You’ll also need Apple’s command line developer tools installed to continue. If you haven’t installed them yet, you can open a Terminal window from Finder Applications Utilities and run the following command to do so: xcode-select -install Click “Install” when you’re prompted to install the tools.
RELATED: In addtion, you’ll need to download and install if you haven’t already installed it on your Mac. Copy-paste the following command into a Terminal window and press Enter to install it: /usr/bin/ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL Press Enter and provide your password when prompted. The script will automatically download and install Homebrew.
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Once you’ve installed the developer tools and Homebrew, run the following command in a Terminal window to install ntfs-3g: brew install ntfs-3g You can now manually mount NTFS partitions in read/write mode. From a terminal window, run the following command to create a mount point at /Volumes/NTFS. You only need to do this once. Sudo mkdir /Volumes/NTFS When you connect an NTFS drive to the computer, run the following command to list any disk partitions: diskutil list You can then identify the device name of the NTFS partition. Just look for the partition with the WindowsNTFS file system. In the screenshot below, it’s /dev/disk3s1.
The NTFS partition was probably automatically mounted by your Mac, so you’ll need to unmount it first. Run the following command, replacing /dev/disk2s1 with the device name of your NTFS partition. Sudo umount /dev/disk2s1 To mount the drive, run the following command, replacing /dev/disk2s1 with the device name of your NTFS partition.
Sudo /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/NTFS -olocal -oallowother You’ll see the file system mounted at /Volumes/NTFS. It will also appear on your desktop as a normal mounted drive.
You can eject it normally when you want to unplug it. If you’re happy manually mounting partitions with the above instructions, you don’t have to continue. RELATED: If you want to make your Mac automatically mount NTFS drives you connect in read-write mode, you’ll need to. Warning: You probably don’t want to do this! The warn that this is a security risk.
You will be replacing the NTFS mount tools in your Mac with the ntfs-3g tools, which will run as the root user. Because of the way Homebrew installs software, malware running on your Mac could overwrite these tools. It’s probably not work the risk, but we’ll explain how to do if if you want to take the risk. Reboot your Mac and hold Command+R while it’s booting.
It’ll boot into a special environment. Launch a terminal from the Utilities menu in recovery mode and run the following command: csrutil disable Once you have, reboot your Mac normally.
From the Mac desktop, open a Terminal window again and run the following commands to make ntfs-3g function: sudo mv /sbin/mountntfs /sbin/mountntfs.original sudo ln -s /usr/local/sbin/mountntfs /sbin/mountntfs Lastly, re-enable System Integrity Protection. Reboot your Mac and hold Command+R while it’s booting to enter recovery mode. Launch a terminal in recovery mode and run the following command: csrutil enable Once you have, reboot your Mac. NTFS-write support should be functioning now.
To undo your changes and uninstall everything, you’ll need to first disable System Integrity Protection. After you do, run the following commands: sudo rm /sbin/mountntfs sudo mv /sbin/mountntfs.original /sbin/mountntfs brew uninstall ntfs-3g You can then uninstall FUSE for macOS from its panel in the System Preferences window and re-enable System Integrity Protection. You can see why instead now, huh? Apple’s Experimental NTFS-Writing Support: Don’t Do This, Seriously We don’t recommend the below method because it’s the least tested. This might not work properly, so don’t blame us or Apple if you experience problems. It’s still unstable as of macOS 10.12 Sierra, and it may never be fully stable. This is really just here for educational purposes.
First, be sure that your drive has a convenient single-word label. If it doesn’t, change its label. This will make this process easier. You’ll first need to launch a terminal. Navigate to Finder Applications Utilities Terminal or press Command+Space, type Terminal, and press Enter. Type the following command into the terminal to open the /etc/fstab file for editing in the nano text editor: sudo nano /etc/fstab Add the following line to nano, replacing “NAME” with the label of your NTFS drive: LABEL=NAME none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse Press Ctrl+O to save the file after you’re done, and then press Ctrl+X to close nano.
(If you have multiple NTFS drives you want to write to, add a different line for each.) Connect the drive to the computer—unplug it and reconnect it if it’s already connected—and you’ll see it under the “/Volumes” directory. In a Finder window, you can click Go Go to Folder and type “/Volumes” into the box to access it. It won’t pop up automatically and appear on your desktop like drives normally do. To undo this change later, just repeat the above process to open the /etc/fstab file in nano. Delete the line you added to the file and save your changes. Most Mac users will be better off formatting external drives with exFAT, ensuring they work well on both Windows and Mac OS X without any extra work. If you must write to an NTFS drive, one of the paid, third-party drivers will be the easiest option with the best performance and least risk of file corruption.