chkdsk for mac?

[amdownzintel]

Hi, I have a drive plugged in USB and I was wondering if mac has a utility like chkdsk that windows has? I know under disk utility it has something, but it usually doesn't work with external drives, or maybe it's just because it's an NTFS drive?

There has to be a terminal command or something, thanks.

 

[Yonzie]

OS X Doesn't support NTFS, so...
Why don't you just plug it into a Windows PC?

 

[amdownzintel]

well actually it can read it, it just can't write to it.

So ok lets say it can recognize the drive just fine, is there not a command or anything for a chkdsk in the mac os?

 

[NetJunkie]

well actually it can read it, it just can't write to it.

So ok lets say it can recognize the drive just fine, is there not a command or anything for a chkdsk in the mac os?

OSX can read NTFS..it just can't write to it. That's normal.

 

[CEpeep]

Chkdsk involves writing back to the drive to fix errors and such. Since OS X has no NTFS write support, it can't do a chkdsk-like activity on NTFS drives. If you want to run chkdsk, connect the drive to a Windows machine.

 

[amdownzintel]

yes I know that, hints why I said it does support it. The other poster said it doesn't support NTFS which it in a way does as in it reads, but doesn't write.

Just nevermind, delete post.

 

[Mathemabeat]

No need.

Actually you do it from the Disk Utility App.

But, as you can see OS X won't allow you to verify/repair an NTFS formatted disk.

If it was FAT32 formatted it would let you verify and repair, but not NTFS.

Need to take it to a Windows computer to chkdsk it.

 

[wizang]

If you're trying to write to and ntfs formatted device on your mac check out mac fuse
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/

 

[CKMorpheus]

If you're trying to write to and ntfs formatted device on your mac check out mac fuse
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/

With the NTFS-3g add-on: http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

Neither of these will allow you to run a chkdsk on the Mac though. Just use a PC.