Read and Write NTFS Partitions from Mac OS X
Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks, Utilities - November 8th, 2007 - 7 Comments
I recently came across a great utility called MacFUSE which allows Mac OS X users to read and write to NTFS partitions, amongst other things. This is extremely useful if you have an external storage device you use on both a Mac and PC, and you want to avoid the limitations of FAT32. Getting MacFUSE to work is not the easiest process in the world, and it takes some knowledge and patience to get functioning properly. Thankfully, LifeHack.org has a pretty decent walkthrough on setting up MacFUSE, so check that out if you’d like some guidance.
Download MacFUSE
Lifehack: How to read and write NTFS Windows partitions on Mac OS X
You might want to note that the version of macfuse talked about in that lifehack article is much older than what is currently available on the google code site. Has anyone got this working under 10.5?
Paragon NTFS OSX Beta3 ( not 3.3 ) works well in leopard and requires almost no effort to install. Beta4 is supposed to be a more polished final version, but costs ~$40.00.
Paragon NTFS OS X is released. It costs $30.00. This software provides reliable, rapid and transparent read/write access to NTFS volumes, like to native Mac partitions. Leopard is supported!
I am using the latest MacFuse and NTFS_3G under Leopard and it works. MacFusion supports a lot of other filesystems as well: e.g. sshfs. A nice tool is MacFusion, which gives you a GUI for Mounting ssh and ftp filesystems. Very useful if you possess a hacked iPhone or iPod touch.
Another free open source option is NTFS-3G: a driver that enables OS X to read/write NTFS.
Here you are some more info:
http://www.gantico.com/blog/2007/11/mac-pc-sharing-disks/
thank you for LifeHack.org
NTFS-3G worked great, i followed following blog since i was getting error after first install
http://rajtalkontech.blogspot.com/2009/01/read-and-write-to-ntfs-from-mac.html