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No need to reformat and no need to back up. It solves the problem in a fast and easy way. That’s where NTFS for Mac app comes into play.

You may even don’t have spare storage for backups. Another reason why reformatting may be a bad idea is that it will take long time to back up files, reformat the disk and move the files back to the disk. HFS+ file system is not friendly to Windows at all because the disk will be both unreadable and unwritable. If you are going to store large files, FAT or ExFAT performs relatively poorly in handling large files. However, reformatting is not always an ideal solution. If you are a cross-platform worker, FAT or ExFAT is the better option because they are universal. If you are totally moving to Mac platform, you can choose HFS+ as the format. Many users will choose to reformat the previously NTFS-formatted disk to a Mac-compatible file system in Windows or macOS. With it, you will be able to have full access to the Windows disk and files. It can break the limit of read-only NTFS disk on Mac.

After it is installed, it works as a device driver to specifically operates or controls an NTFS-formatted hardware. NTFS for Mac software is a small utility, usually less than 20 MB. To bridge the incompatibility gap, NTFS for Mac comes into play. If you are moving to a Mac from a PC with an NTFS disk, “how to write to NTFS drives” will become the first question you put in Google. The NTFS-formatted drive will appear read-only on a Mac machine by default. However, macOS is not friendly to Microsoft NTFS file system. With the overwhelming market share of Windows PCs, many external hard drives come with NTFS file system or previous PC owners have formatted external hard drives to NTFS.

NTFS, the proprietary file system by Microsoft, has been the primary file system on Windows computers since Windows NT 3.1 operating system, replacing FAT file system.