I restarted and it works now, but I really don't want to have an unstable OS. I wonder, did I really return everything back to normal? was this crash part of consequences of altering the system? Or was it maybe something with Paragon? Now it works, but I just had a problem with the external HDD, that suddenly didn't mount and caused the whole system to crash. installed and uninstalled NTFS-3G and MacFuseĥ. sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig /sbin/mount_ntfs to restore the mount_ntfsģ. (Maybe I can delete the file at all, it wasn't there when I first created it.?)Ģ.

sudo nano /etc/fstab and deleted the line added previously. So I restored everything back, according to the instructions:ġ.

After reading through posts, I understood, that all of these Terminal methods are unstable, and it is better to use Paragon. I have tried all of these, and nothing worked, including NTFS Mounter and NTFS-3G with MacFuse (MacFuse is discontinued by the way). It is so frustrating and I'm hoping you guys/gals can help I have used a seperate Windows laptop to try make sure they were removed correctly. To clarify - Disc Utility in SL sees the drive but all options are greyed out and I can see no icon on the desktop. If I boot into Parallels and plug in a usb I get the pop up asking which OS I want to associate it with, if I choose Win7 it works fine but if I choose SL it doesn't see it. I have a usb blu ray read/write drive that is fine. So I followed the procedure below only this time it didn't work - I could still only read but not write - so I tried again and re booted immediately after following the procedure, now I can't even read ntfs - in fact SL doesn't recognise any usb drive that I plug in.

It was after the reinstall that I noticed that I could not write to ntfs, only read so I assumed that it had overwritten what I had previously done. Very recently I had cause to re install the operating system - I was having a problem with iMovie and the Apple tech instructed me to do so. Here's what happened:Ībout 2 years ago I successfully used the method quoted below to read and write to ntfs drive on my imac running Snow Leopard. Hi all - help very much appreciated as I can't see any usb drives on my iMac using SL any more. Help needed - can't see any usb drives now

Enable write to ntfs on mac