Macbook won't read NTFS external harddrive

[mossyfiber12]

Hi everyone. I just bought a macbook w/ Leopard and now I am trying to migrate my audio/video files from my seagate external (which is in NTFS format) to my Macbook. However, my mac won't even mount the drive. The only way I can see the external is through disk utility.
In disk utility, my seagate has subcategory which shows a blue folder with a red minus sign at its bottom right hand corner. I don't understand what all this means.
I thought that macs can read NTFS, just can't write? Please help.

 

[harryb2448]

Have a look at a program called MacFUSE>

Here is a link to it:-

http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/