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<blockquote data-quote="Avalon" data-source="post: 85837" data-attributes="member: 5184"><p>NTFS is read-only for the Mac, therefore, you can't do any changes except format the drive.</p><p></p><p>What you could do is copy all the data from the external HD to your Mac or PC, reformat the external HD with FAT32 and then move back the files to the external HD. This has the advantage that the drive can be used by both, PC and Mac, as read- and writable.</p><p></p><p>If you don't want to use those drives with a PC anyway, you can also format it with HFS+, the Mac format. But that format is not even readable on Windows.</p><p></p><p>Little hint: When you format a HD with Disk Utility, you can select "MS-DOS filesystem", which will format the drive with FAT32.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Avalon, post: 85837, member: 5184"] NTFS is read-only for the Mac, therefore, you can't do any changes except format the drive. What you could do is copy all the data from the external HD to your Mac or PC, reformat the external HD with FAT32 and then move back the files to the external HD. This has the advantage that the drive can be used by both, PC and Mac, as read- and writable. If you don't want to use those drives with a PC anyway, you can also format it with HFS+, the Mac format. But that format is not even readable on Windows. Little hint: When you format a HD with Disk Utility, you can select "MS-DOS filesystem", which will format the drive with FAT32. [/QUOTE]
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