I just bought a External Hard Drive...

j120387j120387
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
..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.

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    noah93noah93 Posts: 168member
    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
  • Reply 2 of 4
    j120387j120387 Posts: 56member
    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!
  • Reply 3 of 4
    chrisdamacmanchrisdamacman Posts: 180member
    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.
  • Reply 4 of 4
    bacillusbacillus Posts: 313member
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