Cant Delete/Paste a file in the external Hard Drive

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i cant delete or paste a file in the external hard drive. i look under the sharing and permission tab and its on Read Only. in the disk utilities, the disk permission button is disabled. what should i do?
 

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What format is the external drive using?
 
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I guess it's NTFS. OS X can only read DATA from NTFS drive. I saw many External Hard Drives have written in their manuals and boxes something like this "reformat is required for OS X"

You have to reformat as HFS+ or other Mac formats

or

get a 3rd party software such as Pragon NTFS for Mac to be able to read and write DATA in your External Hard Drive without reformating

MS-DOS FAT can be read and write by both OS X and Windows but it can not contain file larger than 4GB
 

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