Three Options RELATED: There are several options for this, and you’ll need to choose one: • Paid Third-Party Drivers: There are third-party NTFS drivers for Mac that you can install, and they’ll work quite well. These are paid solutions, but they’re easy to install and should offer better performance than the free solutions below. • Free Third-Party Drivers: There’s a free and open-source NTFS driver you can install on a Mac to enable write support. Unfortunately, this take a bit of extra work to install, especially on Macs with the new, added in 10.11 El Capitan. It’s slower than paid solutions and automatically mounting NTFS partitions in read-write mode is a security risk. • Apple’s Experimental NTFS-Write Support: The macOS operating system includes experimental support for writing to NTFS drives.

In other words, to set a Windows partition as bootable, you’ll need to use the boot selector in the NTFS for Mac preference pane instead of the stock selector. First, select BOOTCAMP partition in the list.

However, it’s off by default and requires some messing around in the terminal to enable it. It isn’t guaranteed to work properly and could potentially cause problems with your NTFS file system.

In fact, we’ve had it corrupt data before. We really don’t recommend using this.

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It’s disabled by default for a reason. We highly recommend paying for a third-party NTFS driver if you need to do this as the other solutions don’t work as well and are more work to set up. The Best Paid Third-Party Driver: Paragon NTFS for Mac costs $19.95 and offers a ten-day free trial. It’ll install cleanly and easily on modern versions of macOS, including macOS 10.12 Sierra and Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

It really does “just work”, so it’s the best option if you’re willing to pay a small amount of money for this feature. You also won’t have to fiddle with terminal commands to manually mount partitions, insecurely mount partitions automatically, or deal with potential corruption as you will with the free drivers below. If you need this feature, paying for software that does it properly is worth it.

We cannot stress this enough. If you own a Seagate drive, be aware that Seagate offers so you won’t have to purchase anything extra.

You could also purchase, which costs $31 and offers a fourteen-day free trial. But Paragon NTFS does the same thing and is cheaper. The Best Free Third-Party Drivers: FUSE for macOS This method is free, but it requires a good bit of work, and is less secure. To make your Mac automatically mount NTFS partitions in read-write mode, you’ll have to temporarily disable System Integrity Protection and replace one of Apple’s built-in tools with a binary that is more vulnerable to attack. So this method is a security risk. However, you can use FUSE to mount NTFS partitions in read-write mode manually if you don’t mind using the Terminal. This is more secure, but it’s more work. First, download and install it.

Use the default options when installing it. RELATED: You’ll also need Apple’s command line developer tools installed to continue. If you haven’t installed them yet, you can open a Terminal window from Finder > Applications > Utilities and run the following command to do so: xcode-select --install Click “Install” when you’re prompted to install the tools.

RELATED: In addtion, you’ll need to download and install if you haven’t already installed it on your Mac. Copy-paste the following command into a Terminal window and press Enter to install it: /usr/bin/ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL Press Enter and provide your password when prompted. The script will automatically download and install Homebrew. Once you’ve installed the developer tools and Homebrew, run the following command in a Terminal window to install ntfs-3g: brew install ntfs-3g You can now manually mount NTFS partitions in read/write mode. From a terminal window, run the following command to create a mount point at /Volumes/NTFS. You only need to do this once. Sudo mkdir /Volumes/NTFS When you connect an NTFS drive to the computer, run the following command to list any disk partitions: diskutil list You can then identify the device name of the NTFS partition. Just look for the partition with the Windows_NTFS file system. In the screenshot below, it’s /dev/disk3s1.