Then you can copy them back and it'll be read-writeable by both windows and macos. You should save the contents of the drive somewhere and then reformat it as fat32. On Macintosh by default NTFS is readonly. Tuxera (who develop one of the commercial NTFS drivers for Mac OS X) have a list of free NTFS drivers that are developed from the same NTFS-3G source used by Linux to read NTFS drives. 4 Answers Sorted by: 9 Your drive must be formatted as NTFS. For a while I've been using but as far as I can tell it hasn't been updated since December 2008. I'd love for someone to tell me differently. Follow the steps below to format SSD to install Windows 10 or Mac. Also, you can learn how to format SSD on a Mac device with detailed steps. There are a few third-party products that allow Mac OS X to read NTFS formatted drives but as far as I'm aware the free ones aren't as well maintained as the commercial ones. You can try EaseUS Partition software - an easy SSD format tool, using CMD command or Disk Management.
Mac OS X has had support for reading NTFS formatted disk for a few versions, but still doesn't have write support. The default GUID partitioning scheme won't be recognised by 32-bit Windows XP and earlier Windows operating systems and Mac OS X versions earlier than 10.4. FAT32 (called MS-DOS (FAT) by Disk Utility a filesystem originally released in 1977 and updated a few times since, lastly in 1996) really is the only cross platform filesystem that is going to work fully out of the box with Windows and Mac OS X.īe careful though, if you are using Disk Utility to format the drive, you should make sure to choose the Master Boot Record partitioning scheme (hit the "Options." button below the "Partition Layout" control on the Partition pane).
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