OS X can read from an NTFS drive without any driver. Know that if you only are going to read from your Windows drive you don’t have to install anything extra. As far as I know there is no free NTFS for Mac solution in development. You should be aware that the above instructions about macfuse and ntfs-3g are beginning to be a bit out of date. You also have a commercial solution here: Paragon NTFS for Mac, I have used it myself and it is really fast and stable. Install the driver, and when everything is installed you can plug in your NTFS formatted drive with full read / write support ! You can get MacFUSE here: After installing you will have to restart your computer.Īfter the reboot go here: and download the ntfs-3g driver. This application will allow Mac OS X to extend the supported filesystems with 3rd party drivers. Get back to your Mac OS X computer where you first have to download and install MacFUSE. It can be done by right clicking the drive in My Computer and select eject. Make sure you have ejected the NTFS drive from your Windows computer correctly before removing the USB / FW cable. We have several solutions available for making the drive work in Mac OS X with full read / write support. If you recently switched from Windows to Mac OS X you may have a NTFS drive with some files lying around. Learn how you can use NTFS for Mac with an formatted Windows drive.
