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Change Read to Read & Write Permission of an NTFS External Drive on Mac

I have an external hard drive of SEAGATE which was formatted on my MacBook Pro before, and I was able to do both Read and Write on it. But now after formatting and installing my OS again, I lost the Write permission. The format of the external hard drive is NTFS.

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iBoysoft author Connie Yang

Connie Yang

Answered on Monday, April 29, 2024

NTFS is not compatible with macOS. You must have used an NTFS for Mac tool on your MacBook Pro before to help you read and write the NTFS drive.

Since you say that you've formatted your Mac and reinstalled macOS, there's no NTFS for Mac software on your Mac to help you write to the NTFS external hard drive anymore.

So, to change the ”Read“ permission to "Read & Write" permission of the drive, you need to use the NTFS for Mac tool again. iBoysoft NTFS for Mac is a powerful one that can help you automatically mount the NTFS drives on your Mac in full read-write. You only need to download and install it on your Mac, then your NTFS drive read-write access for you.

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