Moving files from Mac Journaled, to exFAT, to NTFS = Nightmare

[dracarys]

Hello,

Trying to move my DATA from a 3tb internal Mac Journaled drive, to an external exFAT 4tb drive, but it said "not enough space" on the 4tb, which makes no sense. Then I formatted the exFAT external 4tb to Mac Journaled, and then it worked, but I was still left with less space than I had originally.

Now, I formatted that internal 3tb drive just to wipe it clean so I could bring back the DATA on the external 4tb, I'm left with even LESS space now.

The whole purpose of this was to move to the exFAT, then BACK to the internal drive once I formatted it NTFS. I'm trying to move away from mac but it's impossible.

Anyways now I'm in windows looking at the internal 3tb through disk management, doesn't seem like there is anything weird going on, 128mb unnallocated, and 200MB EFI. Could these be the culprit?

Should I be doing that "full format" thing instead of quick format? I'm losing space for weird reasons, and I haven't had any fail issues in the past with the drives.

ps - FAT32 is not an option as there are iso's and files over 4gb

 

[dracarys]

I just "deleted free space" this gave me an extra 2 gigs. There is also no Backups.

I can already predict no solution to this problem

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

have you tried 4 TB NTFS or 2 x 2TB partitions with NTFS format instead of EXFAT and 4TB

apparently MAC OS 10 can read NTFS by default
but can also write to NTFS if you follow procedure below or use software drivers from Seagate or Paragon

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/how-to-manually-enable-ntfs-read-and-write-in-os-x/

let us know if & how you succeed

regards
Mike Barnes

 

[dracarys]

Yes I have Mavericks, have not tried NTFS but Ive tried everything else, regardless I'm stuck with a smaller drive even if I drag stuff over again, because I can't just magically transfer over the correct amount of GB anymore. Is there any software that allows to clean up the disk? I'm currently running virus scanner to see if it removes any unwanted corruptions.