The NTFS-3G driver is a freely available and supported read/write NTFS driver for Linux. NTFS-3G supports all Windows 2000 and later NTFS
To install on Linux Mint
#apt-get install ntfs-3g
To install on RHEL and Derivatives
# yum install ntfs-3g
(Make sure you include the RPMForge Respository. See Installing RPMForge)
Note: To use NTFS-3g
# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows