If the external drive is an SSD you can format it APFS.īut if you are stuck with a large amount of data on an NTFS drive, then you may just need to license the Paragon NTFS software and keep it up-to-date and you might periodically need to pay to upgrade.Īgain, if you don't need NTFS then you should probably format the drive as HFS+ for HDD and APFS for SSD. Or if you have only Macs you can format the drive as HFS+.

You can format the disk as ExFAT and that is completely compatible between operating systems. If you don't need to connect this drive to a Windows computer then you don't need NTFS support.

Therefore you need to license Paragon NTFS if you really need to use NTFS formatted drives.

Technically, there is an option to enable macOS read/write on NTFS but it's experimental and shouldn't be trusted. macOS can read such volumes but cannot write to them. Disks formatted with NTFS are intended for Microsoft Windows. The reason this works is because Paragon NTFS needs to be upgraded to be compatible with Ventura. because who knows when the drive won't work on Mac anymore. My recommendation if you have this issue, is to backup your drive, format it for Mac OS, and then copy the files back onto it.

I now have the painstaking task of recovering all 1TB of files on my corrupted drive.

The issue also resulted in me inadvertently corrupting my most important drive, trying to troubleshoot something that is clearly the result of a poor update from Apple.

The issue means I can't access my older Seagate drives.

I am bitterly disappointed with Apple on this one: I can however access my Seagate Expansion drive. I was beginning to think that the issue was with the drive, but today I connected my 1TB Seagate NTFS drive and had the same issue - drive not connecting via Paragon NTFS for Mac, even after updating to Ventura 13.4.1. I've had to purchase recovery software for $70+ to recover my files now. With my first drive (a 4TB drive), I spent a fair amount of time troubleshooting the issue last night, and while the drive was still functioning in Windows, I accidentally made things worse when trying a terminal command from a support forum, which now means the drive isn't accessible in Windows either. I've had the same issue with 2 different Seagate NTFS drives.

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