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Can't copy to external hard drive

Last answer on Jun 11, 2009 9:05:14 pm BST mel, on Jun 11, 2009 9:55:01 am BST 
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Hello,
I have just bought a 100g external hard drive. Bare with me as I am a novice.

Hard drive advertised as being able to use on both Mac and PC. I have both - Windows XP and a mac OSX.

My PC doesn't recognise the HD at all. Mac does but when I try to drag files on I get message "... cannot be moved because... cannot be modified"

Can anyone help?

Configuration: Mac OS X
Safari 525.28.3

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ni.ma68, on Jun 11, 2009 3:41:39 pm BST
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The drive is formatted for Windows using NTFS. OS X can read from an
NTFS volume but can not write to it.

Re-format the drive if you want to write files to it.

   
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mel, on Jun 11, 2009 8:54:31 pm BST
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1. Thankyou

2. How do I format on a mac? (never done it on mac before)

3. Once formatted, will I be able to use the HD on my PC as well?

   
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 rosadrake, on Jun 11, 2009 9:05:14 pm BST
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Reformat your external hard drive with FAT32, thus it will work on both windows and mac os.

   
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