I hooked up our "My Passport" that we use solely as an external HD and it comes up as read only. I can't save anything to it and when I check get-info it says shared as read only.
Sorry -no it is isn't shared -it is just under "sharing and permissions" on the Get Info Screen it says read only.
Yes it was formatted by a PC for use from PC to PC but now we need to have files from PC to Mac. (work to home)
This sums up my issue completely
My new external Mac drive is read-only. How can I fix it? :: Online Tech Support Help :: Ask Dave Taylor!®
He recommends a reformat - my question of course is will it it be read-write accessible by the PC (work computer)?
I believe there are 3rd party packages to allow your Windows PC to read/write Mac OS format (HFS) but I am not familiar with any of them. Preferable, in my opinion, to either format drive to FAT32 or get an NTFS driver for your Mac.