Now you may not know, but modern MAC OS support NTFS volume (both read and write) However, this feature is disabled by default.
So here are three workarounds, on how to use an NTFS volume with MAC Use NTFS Drive on MAC #1 Terminal Now you can always format your hard drive to FAT32/exFAT and make it compatible on both platforms or even use samba server to share file between MAC and Windows.īut, if you are going to use your external drive mostly on Windows, then it does make sense to keep NTFS and sometimes when you want to use it on MAC, use a software. you can only copy data from external HDD to your MAC but not the other way around.
This means you can use them on Windows with no problem.īut on MAC, NTFS volume becomes read only i.e. Since Windows is still the most popular desktop OS, most external HDD comes preformatted with NTFS.
