This is usually happen when not all files are written properly due to an unmount operation not finishing. Suddenly all my files disappeared - please help! Mac OS X will not be able to re-mount in read-write mode for that reason.
The volume will be marked as 'not cleanly unmounted'. If you simply unplug the USB stick from PC without using the little tray icon to detach the hardware This can happen when the USB stick is not cleanly unmounted from the Windows PC. An alert is popping up telling me to re-attach the stick, but this To make it easier to re-locate the drive I have added the 'Show in Finder' option in Mounty menu. The mount point becomes hidden and disappears from Desktop and Finder menu. It allows read/write mount of NTFS drives only with the 'nobrowse' option. Some questions that might come up My NTFS disk disappears from Desktop when using Mounty
