How To Repair Bootcamp Partition

How to Mount BOOTCAMP NTFS Segmentation with Read-Write Access?

Summary: This article is about how to mountain Windows Boot Camp NTFS segmentation in read-write manner. Using iBoysoft NTFS for Mac is the easiest and almost efficient manner.

Read and write Boot Camp partition on Mac

1 of the inconveniences for using Boot Camp on Mac is that you might find yourself in demand of NTFS write back up when you want to transfer files from the macOS partition to the Windows partition.

Even though you can get the trouble solved by creating a shared Fat/exFAT division or using deject storage, either of the methods is unacceptably inconvenient for frequent file transferring.

You are not the only one who has faced such a need to read NTFS bulldoze on Mac and edit stored NTFS files on an NTFS formatted deejay. Take a expect at the example beneath:

"I want to mountain my BootCamp NTFS partition as drive D so I can read/write the drive for backup purposes. I have read many related materials but cannot discover a solution. Does anyone know how to do this or if it is even possible to mountain BOOTCAMP NTFS segmentation with read-write mode?"

In this post, you volition discover how to mount the BOOTCAMP partition with read/write support hands.

Table of Contents:

1. Why you can't write to Windows Kicking Camp division on Mac
2. How to mount the BOOTCAMP partition in read-write mode
iii. Conclusion

Why you tin't write to Windows Boot Camp partition on Mac

To install Windows on Mac, a tool chosen Boot Army camp Assistant on Mac will walk you through the process. It will partition the Mac hard disk and create a partition named BOOTCAMP for installing Windows.

Both operating systems volition work fine in their partition. Y'all will be able to choose either macOS or Windows to boot into at the startup.

This Windows Boot Camp partition is by default formatted with NTFS (New Technology File System). macOS can't write to an NTFS-formatted partition, so transferring contents from macOS partition to BOOTCAMP partition is blocked.

How to mount the BOOTCAMP partition in read-write manner

The described state of affairs above causes much inconvenience when yous desire to newly create, modify, or delete files on the BOOTCAMP NTFS partition when you are using Mac operating system.

You volition find 2 ways to mount the BOOTCAMP sectionalization in read/write mode in macOS and Mac Os X.

To install third-party NTFS for Mac software
To enable Mac's native NTFS write support using command line

Solution one: Mountain BOOTCAMP partition with read-write admission with an NTFS driver for Mac

NTFS write support can be added through a 3rd-party NTFS driver for macOS. At that place are NTFS for Mac gratis drivers similar FUSE for macOS and Mounty and paid ones like iBoysoft NTFS for Mac and iBoysoft DiskGeeker.

Paid NTFS drivers have obvious advantages in terms of security, usability, and reliability. iBoysoft NTFS for Mac and iBoysoft DiskGeeker are examples.

Pick 1: iBoysoft NTFS for Mac

iBoysoft NTFS for Mac is a tiny utility that is especially designed to enable full read-write access to NTFS-formatted drives or partitions on Mac. With it, you can easily mount the BOOTCAMP segmentation with read-write support in macOS and Mac OS X.

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Tutorial to download and use iBoysoft NTFS for Mac:

Download iBoysoft NTFS for Mac and install it.
Go to Finder > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.
Right-click the BOOTCAMP partition and choose "Testify in Finder".
Modify files on the BOOTCAMP partition or save files on information technology.

Pick 2: iBoysoft DiskGeeker

iBoysoft DiskGeeker is a deejay management tool. It tin can exist used equally an NTFS mounter for macOS that can finer and automatically mountain NTFS bulldoze on Mac in read-write mode.

With it, users can have full read-write access to Windows NTFS Kicking Campsite volume with fast write and file transferring speed. This all-in-i tool can also check and diagnose disk errors, make clean junk files, prevent virus attacks, manage network drives, clone disks and encrypt and unlock NTFS drives with BitLocker encryption.

iBoysoft DiskGeeker is compatible with Intel-based Macs and M1 Macs running macOS 10.13 - macOS 12.

Instruction to enable read-write access to BOOTCAMP NTFS partition with iBoysoft DiskGeeker:

Download, install and launch iBoysoft DiskGeeker on Mac.
Click iBoysoft DiskGeeker at the menu bar to bank check if the BOOTCAMP partition is mounted (the software mounts NTFS volumes automatically past default).
If the BOOTCAMP partition is not mounted automatically, you can click the button beside the BOOTCAMP partition to manually mount it.
Read/write to BOOTCAMP division after the partition is automatically opened in the Finder by default.

If the software doesn't open the BOOTCAMP segmentation in the Finder automatically, y'all can click the BOOTCAMP sectionalization in the drop-down interface, click the menu button beside the bulldoze and choose "Open".

Solution two: Read and write to BOOTCAMP sectionalization using control line

Apple's NTFS write support is disabled past default. It is nether testing and not stable.

We have seen quite a few reports saying the native NTFS write support on Mac did damage to the NTFS partitions, so this is not a recommendation for you to take total read-write admission to the BOOTCAMP segmentation.

The process requires sure Terminal cognition. Scout the video beneath to know how to exercise it.

enable NTFS write support on M1 Mac

A detailed text guide is likewise included below:

Tips: If yous want to undo the change, follow the step 1 and step 2, then delete the command line. Save your modify and exit.

Decision

With Kicking Army camp, it is possible for Mac users to use Windows-simply applications and play Windows-only games on Mac.

However, when it comes to the need to transfer contents to the Windows BOOTCAMP sectionalisation from the macOS partition, users always realize macOS can't write to the BOOTCAMP partition. The reason is that the BOOTCAMP sectionalisation is formatted with NTFS and NTFS is non fully uniform with macOS.

The postal service introduced two means to mount the BOOTCAMP partition in read-write mode on Mac - past installing a third-party NTFS for Mac software or past enabling Mac's native NTFS write support.

Apparently, using NTFS for Mac software like iBoysoft NTFS for Mac or iBoysoft DiskGeeker is easier and safer.

iBoysoft author Anna Yuan

Anna Yuan

Anna Yuan is a professional person tech editor at iBoysoft who specializes in writing articles related to software, macOS, Windows OS, Apple products, and Windows computers. Furthermore, she writes articles for some well-known tech websites. And as she has been a Mac user for many years, she's highly willing to share information on Mac utilities and tips.

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Jessica Shee

Jessica Shee is a senior tech editor at iBoysoft. Throughout her 3 years of feel, Jessica has written many informative and instructional articles in information recovery, data security, and disk management to help a lot of readers secure their important documents and have the best advantage of their devices.