External Hard Drives

draztiktendenzy · May 14, 2008

I have two external hard drives at my office. One is my personal one and the other is strictly work related. I just started working with a Mac Pro to edit video for my job. My problem comes in when I try to transfer files from the Mac to my work hard drive. Now I did use this hard drive on a PC before the Mac. The error message is "This device can not be modified". But it is not locked.

I would greatly appreciate any help!!!!!!

Thanks

daveinpoway · May 14, 2008

Is the drive formatted in NTFS? Apple cannot write to NTFS drives, but it can read them.

draztiktendenzy · May 14, 2008

It may be. So I have to reformat??

cowasaki · May 14, 2008

draztiktendenzy said:
I have two external hard drives at my office. One is my personal one and the other is strictly work related. I just started working with a Mac Pro to edit video for my job. My problem comes in when I try to transfer files from the Mac to my work hard drive. Now I did use this hard drive on a PC before the Mac. The error message is "This device can not be modified". But it is not locked.

I would greatly appreciate any help!!!!!!

Thanks

What format is the drive in. The Mac can read several formats that it cannot write to hence the error message.

Is it by chance formatted to NTFS? Try using FAT32

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I'll go away now....

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