How to make your external NTFS hard disk writable in Mac?

March 30, 2009 13 sec read

You can only read, but not write to, your external NTFS hard disk? Here is a solution:

1. Go to http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ and download/install macfuse

2. Go to http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24481/ntfs-3g and download/install ntfs-3g

3. Restart your computer

Then you can copy files to your NTFS hard disc.

Problem: the speed is slow: ~1M/s.

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8 Replies to “How to make your external NTFS hard disk writable…”

Thank you :D, it actually worked!! And regarding the slow speed, well copying, pasting, and writing slowly, is better than not doing them at all :D.

Thanks so much for sharing this…

I think I did or didn’t do a certain thing so my xHDD went “Readable Only” in my iMac..
It’s so simple, download, install, read the literatures, or not if you’re a practical person like me, finish, restart your stupid Mac, and voila!

And regarding the speed, I guess it’s quite normal. 6gigs in 6 minutes.. No prob!:D