But the Mac OS from 10.3 x and later version has the options to perform read/write on NTFS drives and storage devices. The NTFS comes under Microsoft developed one which is one of the legal obstacles for Mac OS to have legal permissions to boot and mount NTFS drive at startup or automatically. Since the read and write process are merely same the Mac OS 10 x versions will not permit the drive to be mounted. It is the most used files system for many external drives as it also supports journaling files and that will be useful at the time of recovery of crashed data.

Since no other file system is well suited for drive storages of larger size. But roughly around 70% of the people all over the world make use of Windows OS. Ultimately Mac is one of the leading big bosses in the operating system industry. So in NTFS even the read process will be considered as write process only. But this New Technology File System will store additional information like files accessing time and date along with that data. In the case of mounting NTFS in Mac, the Mac operating systems do not give read / write permissions to the users because of legal issues or sometimes the read process alone will be permitted. So the mounting process will ensure that the requested drive is supported by the PC and the operating system. Moreover the operating system cannot be forced to open an uncategorized or unsupported format. In Mac based operating systems before the boot of any storage devices by the PC the user or the operating system has to mount the storage drives using mount point and file systems. Have you ever thought that opening a drive in Windows is not called “Mounting a drive”? To explain it technically, the mounting process is not done by the hardware process of the PC. So far it is considered that mounting NTFS means opening an NTFS formatted drive in Mac operating system.

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