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Apple M1 MacBook Reading NTFS Drives

Enable M1 to read NTFS (Windows-based) Storage

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In the past, we can just plug in an NTFS External Drive to a MacBook (Intel-based silicon), we will get a read-only mode, where we can read and use the content on the drive. (Not write though)

After moving from a normal Intel-Based MacBook to M1 Macbook (Apple-Silicon), one problem faced is, we can no longer read an NTFS (Windows-based) External Drive.

With a quick search on the internet, the solution below

7 Best Free NTFS for Mac Software - Roundup Review 2022

Clearly, this is an iBoysoft website, hence the iBoysoft got listed first. And it’s not free. So I tried Mounty instead, which is second in the list.

Mounty

To get more info on Mounty, refer to the site