Mac operating systems are always trusted by users for theirreliability. However, none native NTFS write support is also a feature thatmany users are complaining about. By default, macOS comes with read-onlysupport for NTFS, and its disabled-by-default write support for NTFS isunstable to use. That’s to say, you’re unable to write to NTFS formatted driveson Mac directly.
- However, if neither FAT32 or ExFAT is an option, MacBooks can enable NTFS-format device writing with the help of third-party software. Once installed, programs like Paragon NTFS for Mac and Tuxera NTFS for Mac allow the MacBook to read NTFS-formatted storage devices as if the storage devices were formatted in HFS+.
- Dec 08, 2012 I have a early 2008 iMac running Mac OS X 10.7.5, and 10.8.2. I need my NTFS hard drive to boot to Windows. I plug it in, and it shows up on my Mac, but it wont let me boot from it. I have went to system preferences and selected startup disk. I have also turned off the computer and help option key while starting up.
- Aimed at the Mac user, the Western Digital My Book Studio (4TB) ($259.99 list) is a metal-clad external hard drive. Its matte silver chassis matches the aluminum case of your new iMac, Mac mini.
- Aimed at the Mac user, the Western Digital My Book Studio (4TB) ($259.99 list) is a metal-clad external hard drive. Its matte silver chassis matches the aluminum case of your new iMac, Mac mini.
But there is an easy solution provided by iBoysoft Drive Manager so that you can write to, edit, copy-paste, delete, rename files stored on NTFS drives on Mac.
MacBooks are partially compatible with the New Technology File System. MacBooks can read data stored on NTFS-formatted storage devices, but are unable to write data to NTFS-formatted storage devices.
About iBoysoft Drive Manager
iBoysoft Drive Manager is a multifunctional disk management tool with multifarious features. It is one of the most powerful NTFS for Mac mounter, which can mount NTFS formatted external hard drives, USB flash drives, SD cards, etc. on your Macs. iBoysoft Drive Manager grants users with full access to NTFS drives, allowing NTFS write support seamlessly on Mac.
Besides, iBoysoft Drive Manager is also an external drivesand network drives management tool. It supports one-click operation tomount/unmount and connect/disconnect several storage devices. This program willautomatically unmount your disks when your Mac gets into sleep mode to avoiddisk corruption. Meanwhile, it is able to map the network drive as a localdrive as well as offer an efficient way to access FTP servers on Mac.
This software is fully compatible with macOS 10.14 (Mojave),macOS 10.13 (High Sierra), macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and Mac OS X 10.11 (ElCapitan), 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.8 (Mountain Lion), 10.7 (Lion).
How to mount NTFS drives onMac with iBoysoft Drive Manager?
Step 1: InstalliBoysoft Drive Manager
Just like other software, using iBoysoft Drive Manager willstart from installation. It’s pretty easy to do this actually because all youneed to do is to download and drag it to your Applications. It allow users totry for 7 days before you pay for it. After installing this tool, you canlaunch it as normal.
Step 2: Connect NTFSdrives to Mac
When iBoysoft Drive Manager is launched, all connecteddrives will be listed in its drop-down menu. If you have a Microsoft NTFS drivethat you want to use on Mac, you can just simply plug it into the Mac and waitfor it being detected. Once you get a notification from iBoysoft Drive Managerthat your NTFS external drive has been mounted successfully, you can write tothis drive.
Step 3: Write to NTFSdrive on Mac
As long as your NTFS external hard drive is mounted byiBoysoft Drive Manager, you can move forward to delete, edit, duplicate, renamefiles on this NTFS drive natively and seamlessly. You don’t have to format thisNTFS drive to make it compatible with Mac and Windows at all.
Note: If you have formatted this drive as someone told you and lose important files, you can search for iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac to get lost files back from formatted drives.
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That’s it, your Mac now is NTFS write supported afterinstalling iBoysoft Drive Manager. Easy, right?
Paragon Ntfs Mac
Some people may suggest installing NTFS-3G or Fuse for macOSNTFS driver, but in fact, they are tricky to use. they are prepared for hackersand geeks who are familiar with the command prompt, not common people who caneasily mess up the system. Any improper typing or operation might result indata loss. That’s why iBoysoft Drive Manager is called an easy solution tomount NTFS drives here.