How to format a USB flash drive or external storage device to NTFS on Windows
For Mac OS users, however, NTFS systems can only be read by Mac, while FAT32 drives can be both read and written to by the Mac OS.
How do I convert FAT32 to NTFS without losing data on Mac? If you want to work with NTFS files, you’ll need a third-party NTFS driver for Mac. It is not possible to write Mac devices to NTFS natively because Apple has not licensed this proprietary file system.