Problem - External HDD in OS X

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eztrog88

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I've got a new Seagate External Hard Drive that's having a weird problem in OS X. I partitioned the drive in Ubuntu using gparted, there is currently 1 fat32 partition on it (fat32 so I can share files between OS X, Ubuntu and Windows). Anyways, I loaded a bunch of files onto the drive in Ubuntu with no issues. I then booted to OS X with the drive connected and it automounted perfectly, could access everything I put on the drive fine... until I tried to delete a file, OS X froze up, had to power off by hold the power button :eek: .

Now OS X won't mount my external drive. The drive is fine, it still mounts, reads and writes in Ubuntu but OS X is having weird issues:
1) Boot with drive connected- will not mount, disk utility freezes when I try to open disk utility.
2) Boot with drive disconnected- boots fine, disk utility opens fine. I connect the drive and it isn't recognized. I disconnect the drive and it shows up. So I reconnect and hit mount, says it can't be mounted to run first aid. Disk utility freezes when I run first aid. At this point I check for the drive in the terminal, it is recognized in the /dev directory but when I try to mount from the terminal it says unknown special file or file system. I'm just learning to use the terminal so I may have entered a wrong command, in the /dev directory I used "mount disk1".

Please help me get this disk mounted in OS X.
 
When I got mine I had to go to the disk utility select the hard drive and hit Erase (back up what ever files you put on there) and it worked fine for me try that.
 
pies said:
When I got mine I had to go to the disk utility select the hard drive and hit Erase (back up what ever files you put on there) and it worked fine for me try that.
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The point is to get it working without erasing the drive, it'll take hours to transfer 150GB of info on DVDs back to the drive, and I've already done that once, problem reoccured.
 
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