New Macbook user external hardrive?

My Macbook should be delivered by tommorow, it will be my first Mac, and I have always had a windows laptop.

I have Seagate 320GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive (ST3320820U2-RK) that I have songs, photos, videos, and some Uni work on. I just wondered if anyone could tell me if I will be able to use this with my Macbook. And if not how would I go about getting the files for mac use. Most of my Mp3s for my ipod are there so it would be a major bummer to have to lose it all.


This is my first post Cheers in advance.

Your new Mac will be able to read and write to the Seagate if it's formatted to FAT-32. Without third party software, NTFS formatted drives are read only.

Several options are available for third party software to read and write to NTFS drives: Paragon NTFS

Open source software: NTFS 3G

Of the two, I recommend the Paragon driver which is also now compatible with Snow Leopard.

Regards.