NTFS for mac 14 disabled hdd drive on windows 7 PC after enabling it on Sierra
Hi,
I have a Windows 7 NTFS formatted external usb Drive (WD Passport brand hdd with 1tb), I plugged it into a Retina Macbook pro (rMBP 2015), it was readable but not writable. I proceded to install a trial of the Paragon NTFS for mac 14 and it enabled the HDD to be editable. That worked great until I ejected and plugged the drive back into the windows 7 desktop PC which no longer reads the drive, it recognizes that its a WD passport but it doesn't show in the explorer. After a minute or two of the drive relentlessly spinning, windows says it needs to be formatted. I can't eject it so I have to turn off windows to unplug it. When I hook it to the macbook it works normally.
What's going on? how do I fix this problem? I can't re-format the drive because it's full and I don't have space to unload it on the mac. I have space on the windows PC ...but I can no longer use it there.
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Re: NTFS for mac 14 disabled hdd drive on windows 7 PC after enabling it on Sierra
Here's a rundown of my system specs and driver version
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I did a Verify on the WD Passport and it failed. I clicked on repair and crossed my fingers, it finished successfully. Plugged it into the Windows PC and ...it still didn't work. the issue persists, unrecognized and 2 minutes in Win7 asks to format. HDD reads/writes fine on MBP.
Re: NTFS for mac 14 disabled hdd drive on windows 7 PC after enabling it on Sierra
I just installed the trial of HFS+ for windows 11 to see if maybe the hdd would work on the PC then, it didn´t.
Re: NTFS for mac 14 disabled hdd drive on windows 7 PC after enabling it on Sierra
Hi,
Most likely, there are errors, which are successfully ignored by Mac, but not Windows.
Please check the drive for errors using chkdsk utility in Windows with parameters /f /r
- Start command prompt as admin and type the command: chkdsk X: /f /r (where X - a required drive letter).
In addition, try specific for this purpose tools from the manufacturer.
HFS+ for Windows has nothing to do here. It provides a full access to HFS partitions under Windows.