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Hey all, i recently bought a 160GB external Hard Drive which was on special... Neways it says it works on both PCs and Macs, i can copy files from pc on Hard Drive, but get an error when trying to copy something onto HD whilst connected to mac = 'the item blah blah could not be moved because 'HD' cannot be modified. The info on the mac reads the ex. HD as a read only device!!!!
Please Help
Thanks in advance
Ryan
 
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Your Mac's Specs
Lenovo Z560 Hackintosh -:- '06 iMac -:- iPod Touch 2ndGen
Sounds like it might be formatted as NTFS - Macs can't write to NTFS partitions.
 
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iMac: CD 2.0GHz, 2GB, 250GB, SuperDrive, 20" MacBook: CD 2.0GHz, 1GB, 60GB, SuperDrive, White
Yup, sounds like the format. Use disk utility to format it as FAT32 (backup you data first!!).

FYI

FAT32 Format - Read / Write from Windows or OS X

NTFS Format - Read / Write from Windows, Read Only for OS X

HFS / HFS+ Format - Read / Write from OS X, Windows can't even see HFS!!
 
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Changing format to FAT 32

Thanks both of you for your support, although i am new 2 macs and absoutely love them...
I still have a lack of knowledge of how to change the format to FAT32..
Its prob easy but dont want to do anything wrong... lol
I have cleared the HD completly and backed up everything!!!
Thanks again
 

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