Access Your NTFS Bootcamp Partition/HD from OS X

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago at 7:14 pm. 0 comments

By default, OS X does not have the ability to fully interact with NTFS formatted hard disk or partition. NTFS is a disk format used very widely with windows ever since Windows NT, hence NT File System. There are many reasons you would want to transfer files to/from OS X and Windows. Sure, parallels or VMWare can do it, but those cost money, and not to mention are meant to run the operating system itself, not just be able to interact with the NTFS.

All you need to do to be able to access your NTFS partition, is install the 3rd party drivers. First off, download NTFS-3G. Install it, then restart. Done. When you boot up again, the windows partition will mount in OS X, and you can transfer files between the two as if it were native. There are other software that do the same thing, such as Paragon NTFS, but that costs $40.00! If you need to access files on your windows, bootcamp partition, NTFS-3G is the way to go.