I have a external HDD with four different partitions on it. 3 out of 4 of them work flawlessly. Two partitions are running the macOS Extended filesystem, one is running good old fat32, with the last one being NTFS. I don't particularly need it mounted in macOS as it contains a bootable copy of Windows 10, or at least it used to.
I figure if I can mount the partition again and repair it or at least make a backup of it, I can get it working as a bootable partition once more. Here's the kicker, I can pull the partition up if I mount the drive in Windows 10 using a virtual machine. So why won't macOS recognize it?
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3macOS should be able to read (but not write) NTFS partition without needing any configuration or installation of software. – Nimesh Neema Sep 24 '18 at 21:45
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Possible duplicate of How do I write to NTFS drives in OS X? – user7886229 Sep 25 '18 at 03:15
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2If the NTFS partition literally does not mount, it may have a problem. I'd plug it into a VM or actual Windows PC and run check disk on it. You won't be able to effect a repair ON macOS, only Windows as macOS does not have the ability (natively) to write to NTFS partitions. – Steve Chambers Sep 25 '18 at 14:35
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If you're using a third party software to mount NTFS portions on a mac like Paragon you need to go to system preferences - security & privacy - allow. Then choose your software to allow it access.
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