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External Drive "cannot be modified"
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<blockquote data-quote="EndlessMac" data-source="post: 1050470" data-attributes="member: 140470"><p>The first thing you should do check what format your external is in. You can do this by opening up Disk Utilities while the external is connected. Click on the drive and at the bottom it will tell you what format the drive is in. </p><p></p><p>Some manufacturers pre-format their drives to Windows NTSF and if that is your problem then it would explain why you can't write to the drive. If you can't use Disk Utilities to format the drive to Mac's Extended Journal then you can use your Windows machine and format the drive to FAT32 which can use by both computers. If that doesn't work then your school is maybe locking out your computer somehow and you will need to talk to your school about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EndlessMac, post: 1050470, member: 140470"] The first thing you should do check what format your external is in. You can do this by opening up Disk Utilities while the external is connected. Click on the drive and at the bottom it will tell you what format the drive is in. Some manufacturers pre-format their drives to Windows NTSF and if that is your problem then it would explain why you can't write to the drive. If you can't use Disk Utilities to format the drive to Mac's Extended Journal then you can use your Windows machine and format the drive to FAT32 which can use by both computers. If that doesn't work then your school is maybe locking out your computer somehow and you will need to talk to your school about it. [/QUOTE]
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