moving files to external hard drive

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I am trying to back up some of my music and movies that I have on my macbook pro to an external hard drive but i seem to have problems it wont let me go from my mac to my external hard drive but I can download from my external hard drive to my mac. Is anyone else having this problem, I was able to do it before but now it wont do it.
 
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Can you be more specific about what EXACTLY happens when you try to copy a file from your mbp to the external drive please?
 
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So you can read from the drive, just not write to it? :D
Is it an NTFS formatted drive?
 
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i try to drag and drop the file into my external hard drive but it just wont do it. i can drag and drop from my external hard drive to my mbp. i tried to do it with a pen drive and it worked i dont know why not sure if its the external harddrive. i tried another external hard drive and it still wouldnt let me.
 
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it is NTFS i can read it but i am not able to write
 

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it is NTFS i can read it but i am not able to write

You'll need to install a third party driver. Paragon NTFS Currently on sale for $19.95.

If you're running Snow Leopard on your MBP, you can turn on the built in R/W to NTFS capability. (not turned on by default) Download the free utility "NTFS Mounter".

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