Q: NTFS and MAC

To my knowledge Mac OS only reads NTFS, it cannot write to it.

Hopefully somebody with more knoweledge about this will respond

If you can erase that drive, you can reformat it using the "FAT" format type, called "MS-DOS (FAT)" in Disk Utility.  Mac OS X can read AND write to that format, and so can Windows.  NTFS is read-only for Mac OS X, and I'm not sure about trusting a third-party extension for writing data (even if it worked).

If you only need to use this drive using a Mac (no need for Windows PC access), then you should just erase it so that it gets reformatted using Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the format type in Disk Utility.

Try the latest version.  I see they have recent fixes.

http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/

Robert

Try this http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/58721/alternative-to-tuxera-ntfs-and-ma cfuse

There is software released quite recently that installs drivers that allow NTFS drives to be written to on the MAC OS system, as an editor i was overjoyed to find that this programme existed. Its called: Paragon NTFS for Mac.  Hope this helps people that stumble across this post.

-StockMushroom

I had the same problem at first.

It is really important to install things in a specific order.

Please, check that, it is working for me on Lion:

http://jordi-montana.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/how-to-write-to-ntfs-volume-windows .html

StockMushroom, I agree with you that Pargon NTFS for Mac works well, but beware, I bought it for $20 and after 30 days, they wanted me to buy the upgraded version for Mavericks for $14.  I spoke with two different people on different levels of the Paragon company ladder and they said that was their policy even if it wasn't popular.  This is poor service at best.  They should support their own software for more than a month.

Which Mac OS version are you using?

@Victor1001 - I know what must be a pain, thankfully i managed to get my work to pay for it at the time and i don't really want to update to Mavericks. It's not that i don't think it's good programming, i just very much like the style of Lion, stuck in my ways i guess.

@Allan Jones - Don't know if this was for me but im running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5.

Anyone else need any help?

It was for the OP. You have a newer Mac than these forums cover. This one is for the pre-2006 iMacs that came before Intel processors; the 2006 and later Intel imacs get a different forum because that processor changeover affected troubleshooting methods, particularly for hardware issues.