I have one external hard drive (Seagate 320 GB). I have used my hard drive in a Windows XP system and it works fine (Read and write). But when I used it on a Mac, I couldn't write any file on the disk and could read only.
How can I use my external hard disk on Mac OS X (both read and write)?
Answer
Your drive must be formatted as NTFS. On Macintosh by default NTFS is readonly.
You should save the contents of the drive somewhere and then reformat it as fat32. Then you can copy them back and it'll be read-writeable by both windows and macos. Note you may see some .data folders appear on the windows side, these are metadata folders, and aren't harmful.
Alternatively you could download the ntfs-3g filesystem, this is a userspace filesystem based on fuse. If that frightens you in any way, i'd resort to the first idea above.
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Cheers Mike
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