Windows hard drive - mac

Harry780 · Harry780 #1 (**permalink**)

04-08-2011, 11:44 AM

My windows pc has been playing up recently, and i know its a problem with the hard drive, because the only other available pc in the house is my imac, i was wondering how to delete files off the hard drive??!!! i have recently bought a device that allows me to connect my hard drive to the imac but i cant seem to delete anything off of it as it seems to be locked, is there an easy way of unlocking these items so i may remove them ??? (HARD DRIVE ---> 'WESTERN DIGITAL') ??

cradom · cradom #2 (**permalink**)

04-08-2011, 02:15 PM

Unless you need to keep the drive as-is for some reason just reformat it with Disk Utility.
It's probably formatted as NTFS which OS X can read but not write to without 3rd party software.

baggss · baggss #3 (**permalink**)

04-10-2011, 05:53 PM

You can use a 3rd party App such as NTFS Mounter to access and manage the disc without reformatting. I've been using it for a while and it works fine.

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Harry780 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 08, 2011 Posts: 1	04-08-2011, 11:44 AM My windows pc has been playing up recently, and i know its a problem with the hard drive, because the only other available pc in the house is my imac, i was wondering how to delete files off the hard drive??!!! i have recently bought a device that allows me to connect my hard drive to the imac but i cant seem to delete anything off of it as it seems to be locked, is there an easy way of unlocking these items so i may remove them ??? (HARD DRIVE ---> 'WESTERN DIGITAL') ??
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cradom #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 14, 2004 Location: South-East Texas Posts: 1,806 Mac Specs: 21in Dual core 3 ghz iMac, 13in Macbook - Mountain Lion on both	04-08-2011, 02:15 PM Unless you need to keep the drive as-is for some reason just reformat it with Disk Utility. It's probably formatted as NTFS which OS X can read but not write to without 3rd party software.
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