To Learn WD NTFS Driver for Mac here. Western Digital NTFS(New Technology File System) driver allows the Apple macOS to read and write hard drives and solid state storage devices. Apple macOS can read the Windows-formatted NTFS drives, however, they cannot be able to write them out of the box. To Read/Write the Western Digital(WD) NTFS formatted file without reformatting it with exFAT, you. Format the External Drive to FAT32. This method is not very coinvent. Not at least for me.
We know that on Mac computers, we can only read NTFS volumes and cannot write data to it, this is because the Mac operating system does not enable NTFS write feature by default. Hasleo NTFS for Mac is a software designed to full read and write access to NTFS volumes on Mac, so you can use it to full read and write access to NTFS drives in Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina.
Tutorial to full read & write access to NTFS drives in Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina.
Step 1. Download, install and run Hasleo NTFS for Mac.
Step 2. Click on the icon on the Mac's status bar and select the NTFS drive you want to access from the pop-up menu, then click 'Mount'.
Notes: If an NTFS volume has been automatically mounted by Mac as read-only, you need to eject it and then re-mount it using Hasleo NTFS for Mac before you can full read-write access to it.
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Step 3. When the operation completes successfully, the drive has been successfully mounted and you can see the icon of the driver on your Mac's desktop.
Step 4. Click on the icon on your Mac's desktop to open the drive, now you can access the NTFS drive like a Mac's native drive, such as read, write, copy, delete files, etc.
As mentioned above, you can use Hasleo NTFS For Mac to mount NTFS drives and then full read and write access to NTFS drives in Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina.
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Some questions that might come up
My NTFS disk diapppears for Desktop when using Mounty
Unfortunately this is by design.
Mounty is using the Apple kernel driver. It allows read/write mount of NTFS drives only with the 'nobrowse' option. The mount point becomes hidden and disappears from Desktop and Finder menu. To make it easier to re-locate the drive I have added the 'Show in Finder' option in Mounty menu.
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My USB stick will not re-mount. An alert is popping up telling me to re-attach the stick, but this doesn't help.
This can happen when the USB stick is not cleanly unmounted from the Windows PC. If you simply unplug the USB stick from PC without using the little tray icon to detach the hardware correctly, the volume will be marked as 'not cleanly unmounted'. There might be some dirty sectors left and Mac OS X will not be able to re-mount in read-write mode for that reason.
Suddenly all my files disappeared - please help!
This is usually happen when not all files are written properly due to an unmount operation not finishing. The NTFS partition might be marked as 'dirty' and the Apple NTFS driver cannot recover from that situation. Mounty will not delete anything by itself, please try to restore your files on a Windows PC using usual recovery s/w, i.e. chkdsk command line utility or professional tools like GetDataBack for Windows. If you do not own any Windows you can use tools for macOS that can deal with NTFS partition maintenance, like Paraogn Harddisk Manager or Tuxera Disk Manager.
Sometimes the files are grayed out and cannot be modified anymore.
This is because the file has extended attributes, refer to the Manpage of xattr for further explanation. If you open the file path in terminal application, you can list the attributes with ls -l@ <filename>, and remove those attributes with xattr -d com-apple.<attribute> <filename>, i.e.: xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo testfile.txt
Unable to re-mount in read/write mode when trying to mount Windows 10 partition
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If you try to mount a Windows System partition, Mounty might fail when Hibernation feature is enabled. There is a Fast Start feature in Windows which might be enabled by default, and this is causing the drive to be locked. Within Windows running, you need to run the command powercfg /hibernate off in an admin powershell and restart Windows to disable this feature and remove the lock to enable it for Mounty. Thanks to Art Schultz pointing that out.