So if you need to get files from a PC to your Mac, NTFS is a decent option. Macs can read files on NTFS drives, but it cannot write to them. So in NTFS even the read process will be considered as write process only. But this New Technology File System will store additional information like files accessing time and date along with that data. In the case of mounting NTFS in Mac, the Mac operating systems do not give read / write permissions to the users because of legal issues or sometimes the read process alone will be permitted. So the mounting process will ensure that the requested drive is supported by the PC and the operating system. Moreover the operating system cannot be forced to open an uncategorized or unsupported format.

In Mac based operating systems before the boot of any storage devices by the PC the user or the operating system has to mount the storage drives using mount point and file systems. Have you ever thought that opening a drive in Windows is not called “Mounting a drive”? To explain it technically, the mounting process is not done by the hardware process of the PC. So far it is considered that mounting NTFS means opening an NTFS formatted drive in Mac operating system.