To get started, click the Spotlight icon at the top right of your screen and enter ‘Terminal’. As this feature is still in the testing phase however, your files could become corrupted at anytime, so proceed with caution. The main benefit of using Terminal in this way is that it’s quick to do and no third-party software is required.
This is an experimental feature and could lead to data loss, so make sure to do a full backup of both your Mac and any data on the drive before continuing.
If reformatting your NTFS drive for Mac is not an option, you can enable write support for specific Windows disks using macOS Terminal. From now on you’ll be able to move files to your drive and edit them in place from a Mac or PC.
Read the warning carefully before proceeding, as this process will delete any existing data on the drive. Enter a new name for the drive in the field above if you wish.Ĭlick ‘Erase’ to continue. Insert your NTFS drive or USB stick and click to highlight the disk name in the white box on the left-hand side of the window. To get started, click the Spotlight icon at the top right of your screen and enter ‘Disk’ to launch Disk Utility. More information on FAT32 versus NTFS is available from Microsoft Support. This may pose a problem if you’re using the drive to store high-quality videos.
This is simple to do and means the data on your drive/USB stick can be read and written on both Macs and PCs.īe aware that the FAT32 format isn’t as efficient as NTFS: it only supports files sizes of up to 4GB. Step 3 Then click on the unallocated space and click ‘Create Volume’ function and Partition Expert will open up a new window to list detail info about the partition you’re about to create: Drive label and letter, File system info, volume type, size and location.If you have an NTFS drive you can use macOS’ Disk Utility to reformat it to FAT32. Step 2 Click on the disk (performs list ‘select disk’) and click on the function ‘Clean up disk’ from the sidebar or the right-click menu (works the same as ‘clean’ command in diskpart), alternatively, you can use the ‘Wipe Disk’ function in Partition Expert, only takes longer time than ‘Clean up’ disk, since this external drive is will still be used later by ourselves, we can also use the ‘Delete all partitions’ function, which is much faster than the previous two function Step 1 Download Partition Expert the Portable edition, unzip it and you can see there are both 32-bit and 64-bit packages, run the corresponding edition directly from the package, and Partition Expert will load the disk map in the main interface in seconds (don’t have to type ‘list disk’ in diskpark tool, it auto loaded), the USB drive you plugged-in is always at the bottom of the map Format and Create Partition in Partition Expert There’re “format” and “create” partitions in this tutorial, which are given in disk part command line, I do want to recommend the alternative method for this part, using the graphically designed partition manager Partition Expert to do the same job, of course, the Free Edition is well enough to perform those operations.
Reddit user whizkid56222 shared how to run Windows 10 from an 128GB Samsung EVO+ 25MB/s Write and 80MB/s Read on a Macbook Air, here’s the detailed installation guides, you can have a try if you have work staff on Windows but want to use Mac system, steps are easy to follow, only time spends on this may vary, based on the device’s read and write speed.