I just bought a External Hard Drive...

j120387

..And the drive mounts onto my macbook, but i cant add anything into the drive. it says i can only read it. help!

its a Seagate 250GB HHD.

noah93

What file system is the drive formatted in?



Probably NTFS.



Anyways, saying that you (probably) don't have anything on it,

1) Mount your harddrive

2) Open Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities)

3) Select the drive

4) Choose the 'Partition' tab

5) Give it a name

6) Choose 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' from the drop down list

7) Click 'Partition'

8) Wait



That should fix up the problem.

If you want to use it on a Mac and PC, just choose 'MS-DOS' from the dropdown menu in #6.



Noah

j120387

Quote:

Originally Posted by noah93


What file system is the drive formatted in?



Probably NTFS.



Anyways, saying that you (probably) don't have anything on it,

1) Mount your harddrive

2) Open Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities)

3) Select the drive

4) Choose the 'Partition' tab

5) Give it a name

6) Choose 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' from the drop down list

7) Click 'Partition'

8) Wait



That should fix up the problem.

If you want to use it on a Mac and PC, just choose 'MS-DOS' from the dropdown menu in #6.



Noah

OMG! Thank You SO Much!

chrisdamacman

or you could partion the harddrive after you have reformatted, one part Mac OS Jornalled and FAT32 as i have done the windows partion being much smaller then the Mac Partition.

bacillus

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