Accessing a PC drive on Mac

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edokid


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Hey guys,

I have a Dell desktop and a PowerBook G4. I bought one of those USB to IDE cables to use the Dell drive on my PowerBook incase Windows ever crashes or whatever. When I connect the drive to the mac, I can browse it and copy files from it. This might be a stupid question but if I try to copy files TO the Dell drive it says I can't access that folder or something like that. Is this normal or is there a way to change that? Not a huge deal just curious thanks!
 
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The drive in your Dell is formatted NTFS, which can be read by OS X but not written, so everything is working perfectly normal.
 

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