Does NTFS modify macOS Disk Utility to enable formatting in NTFS?

The title is the question: Does NTFS modify macOS Disk Utility (Catalina) to enable formatting in NTFS? Or, does NTFS offer its own internal method?

I have Windows available under Parallels, but I didn't want to have to launch it for just one basic task and I will be doing this many times. And call me old fashion, but I am not all that trusting of uninstalling things -- so often there are some files or modifications left behind -- so that is why I don't just install it and test it.

Thanks.

Disk Utility can format in NTFS just as macOS can access NTFS read-only -- natively. NTFS for Mac is basically only needed for write-access.

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Originally Posted by pyrrh0

Disk Utility can format in NTFS just as macOS can access NTFS read-only -- natively. NTFS for Mac is basically only needed for write-access.

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My Catalina 10.15.6 does not offer NTFS in either partitioning or formatting; only APFS, Mac OS Extended, FAT, and ExFAT (with the various case and encryption options and such). If *you* have NTFS, then maybe it was added by Paragon's NTFS? I had NTFS as an option for formatting years ago, but then again, I was in a Windows environment with NTFS, and I would have had Paragon or Tuxera MacFUSE back then. And also, it does not make sense that macOS can format in NTFS yet not write to it.

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Disk Utility is not modified by NTFS for Mac.
What NTFS for Mac does -- it adds some specific files to your computer -- which are then recognized and used by Disk Utility to format into NTFS.

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Originally Posted by Max Power

No.
Disk Utility is not modified by NTFS for Mac.
What NTFS for Mac does -- it adds some specific files to your computer -- which are then recognized and used by Disk Utility to format into NTFS.

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