NTFS (New Technology File System) is the file system used for depositing and recovering files on a hard disk. If you want to write a Boot Camp partition on your Mac system, you should use exFAT since the Mac’s operating system is already wired to read that. • • Part 1: Free Ways to Write to NTFS Drives on a Mac Mac can read but not write to NTFS drives on a Mac, however, there are solutions.

Third party drivers (FREE): although this method requires some involving activities, you can get it to work. • Download and install osxfuse. • If you don’t have Homebrew yet you will download and install it next.

The Paragon NTFS 15 for Mac is sold at $19.95 with a 10-day free trial. Be the first to go to the Paragon NTFS page. Change the macOS Sierra settings to enable NTFS Write. In the settings for macOS Sierra, one can put NTFS Write on. There is an experimental support for this feature which is off by default.

(I tend to view it as 'candy land'.) Oh yes there are.

• Install command line tools. Go to applications and navigate to utilities from there. Run the command 'xcode-select –install'. You will see a pop up with the option to install. Choose install.

Open a terminal window and enter the command 'brew install homebrew/fuse/ntfs -3g'. • After this you will move on to disable system integrity protection.

• Once system integrity protection is disabled you should reboot your Mac. As the system begins to reboot, press and hold command+R. The system will enter into a recovery mode.

• While in recovery mode, open a terminal from utilities and enter the command 'csrutil disable'. • After that command you will now reboot your system in the usual way to take it out of recovery mode. • Once fully operational, open a terminal and run these commands 'sudo mv / sbin/mount_ntfs / sbin/mount_ntfs.original' and 'sudo 1n –s /usr/local/sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs'. • Enable system integrity protection. After this, repeat the same process to press and hold command+R while rebooting the system to enter into recovery mode. • Enter the code 'csrutil enable'. • Reboot your Mac to normal mode and you should be able to write to NTFS drives on a Mac now.

If you ever wish to reverse the entire process, you would need to disable system integrity protection ad run these commands right after 'sudo rm /sbin/mount_ntfs' and 'sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs.original /sbin/mount_ntfs' and 'brew uninstall ntsf-3g'. You can uninstall osxfuse from the system and remove it completely from system panel. Enable system integrity protection after the uninstall. Apple’s experimental NTFS writing support: the operating system of Mac has experimental support for writing NTFS but this is automatically off and has to be turned on by some steps. This method is the least tried and the least stable. It is in no way guaranteed and if it does not work it is not the fault of the instructions. It just does not work sometimes.