By default, macOS provides only read access to NTFS partitions.
Tuxera NTFS for Mac allows macOS computers to read and write NTFS partitions. The product key entered for Tuxera NTFS for Mac is not valid. > Tuxera NFTS for Mac: invalid product key. on plugging in, it prompts dialogue box : My other externals (NFTS format, SEAGATE 500GB) and ( ExFAT format, SABRENT Media 2TB) are both working with this laptop, although the NFTS seagate 500GB external is readable, and not writable. have tried on other laptops, both Mac, and windows, with similar results. There are no "clicking", "whirring" or unusual sounds from the disk.
Harddrive is Samsung m3 portable media 2TB, it is named "epicmoe's media". this is a new problem with this hard drive, it has worked before. How do I go about automounting my HDD, now that the mounting problems have been solved? Earlier I never had to sudo for mounting - it just connected.My external hard dive does not show up in finder. Trying to mount from Nautilus gives me the following error. After disconnecting and reconnecting the HDD - it does not automount.This is what my fstab looks like now (removed swap entry) # /etc/fstab: static file system information. The Mount at Startup option made no difference when checked. I tried to change the Mount options to make it similar to my internal HDD (turning Automatic Mount Options ON did not help). Disks application now recognizes the mounted HDD.Created a directory /media/usr/external/ and ran sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/usr/external.
dev/sdb1 2048 3906963455 3906961408 1.8T 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFATīlkid gave no output for the external disk /dev/sdb1 $ sudo blkid /dev/sdb1īIG EDIT - ABLE TO MOUNT HDD VIA COMMAND LINE. I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytesĭevice Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes Perhaps my HDD issues have something to do with this - I am not able to figure that out The /swap partition is actually created by me using fallocate and mkswap for hibernation using swap file as described in the Debian Wiki Hibernation Manual.
dev/disk/by-uuid/8A9CAF0D9CAEF33D /media/usr/part1 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0 # that works even if disks are added and removed. # device this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a My internal HDD has one ext4 and two NTFS partitions, and they show up fine on fstab, but my external HDD does not # /etc/fstab: static file system information. Connecting to a different USB port does not help Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1058:0741 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Here is how it shows up on the Disks application The HDD is getting detected, but I am unable to mount it. It was working well with Ubuntu until a few days ago (points 3 and 4 explains what changes I might have made). I have a WD MyPassport that is NTFS formatted with only 1 partition, and works perfectly fine on Windows.