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Mac OS X do not support writing files into NTFS filesystems by default and you cannot copy files to external hard drive from mac. But Mac do support reading the NTFS drives and copying files from NTFS HDDs. Most of the Mac users don’t know this and will buy portable external hard disks to expand the storage space. If you bought one, don’t worry 3 solutions are for you.
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- OS X Recovery is a convenient feature that, in theory, means you no longer need an OS X Install disc or a bootable external hard drive with the OS X installer. But there are still good reasons to.
- Aug 14, 2013 Go into Disk Utility, select the external drive and click on the partition tab. Select 2 partitions etc. As you did before OS X Extended for Time Machine, ExFAT or Free space for Windows. At the bottom click options and select 'Master Boot Record'. Then finally apply the settings and let the drive.
- Jul 09, 2020 Using an external drive or OS X Recovery for the starting up of the Mac from another bootable drive. Disk Utility can be run from the external drive. The version of the OS X does not matter, by at least must be 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9. The one and only requirement are that Disk Utility must reside on the drive.
- The steps given below will help you use Recoverit for Mac to recover Mac’s Drive: Download, install and launch Recoverit hard drive recovery software. Now choose the target drive where the data gets lost, and click 'Start' to recover lost data.
Cannot copy files to external hard drive from mac ?
Solution 1. Format the Hard disk with ExFat file system (Windows and Mac will fully support it)
Solution 2. A Third party utility to support read and write operations on NTFS file system.
Solution 3. Using simple tweaks play on your Mac OS X.
1. Format the Hard disk with ExFat file system
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If you go for the first solution, simply backup all the data and connect your external hard disk to your MAC and follow the steps
- Connect your Portable External Hard drive and open “Disk Utility”
- Select the External Disk on the left section, and click on the “ERASE” tab and format as ExFAT file system
2. Third party software for NTFS support on Mac
Second solution is a third party utility that adds NTFS drivers for Mac. Go for “Paragon NTFS for Mac” which is a paid software. Download and install it.
If you are using Seagate external hard disk, the download free copy of “Paragon NTFS” thats comes absolutely free and only works with Seagate branded portable hard disks. Download Paragon NTFS for Seagate made Portable Hard disks.
3. NTFS write support for MAC using simple OS X Tweaks
Its a bit skill oriented task, so follow it carefully and at your own risk.
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First connect your NTFS Drive into the Mac and open “Terminal” application and run the below command to find the UUID of your External NTFS Hard Disk. (My NTFS HDD name is “TOSHIBA”, Edit with your own Mac HDD name)
diskutil info /Volumes/TOSHIBA | grep UUID
Sample output:
Volume UUID: 45125EB1-E1C3-3D21-9484-32DE22FEF0
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Now enable read/write support for the Hard drive (based on UUID) run the below command, edit with your own Disk Volume UUID. This command add read write attribute to the /etc/fstab
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sudo echo “UUID=<UUID> none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse” >> /etc/fstab
example:
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sudo echo “UUID=45125EB1-E1C3-3D21-9484-32DE22FEF0 none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse” >> /etc/fstab
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Now you will be able to perform both read and write to that NTFS formatted Hard drive from that Mac. If you got another NTFS hard drive, Follow the steps again to find that HDD’s UUID and enale the rw/wr .