Learn how you can read and WRITE! to a NTFS formatted Windows drive in Mac OS X.

If you recently switched from Windows to Mac OS X you might have a NTFS drive with some files lying around. Now there is a solution available making the drive available in Mac OS X with full read / write support. Best of all, it is free.

Make sure you have ejected the NTFS drive from your Windows computer correctly before removing the USB / FW cable. It can be done by right clicking the drive in My Computer and select eject. If the drive is an external one.

Get back to your Mac OS X computer where you first have to download and install MacFUSE. This application will allow Mac OS X to extend the supported filesystems with 3rd party drivers.

You can get MacFUSE here: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/

After installing you will have to restart your computer.

After the reboot go here http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/NTFS-3G.shtml and download the ntfs-3g driver.

Install the driver, and when everything is installed you can plug in your NTFS formatted drive with full read / write support !