Transferring files to external storage drive

I guess aim really dense but I cannot find a way to transfer or store files from from Macbook Pro to a connected external storage drive.

When I try to drag and drop any file it just boomerangs back and won't go to the external drive.

When I try a save or save as i just get a message that file "x" cannot be saved as file "x".

Can someone enlighten me?

the external drive is NTFS isn't it?


OS X can't write to NTFS natively, in fact the ONLY OS that can.. is Windows. (it's their filesystem)

You can fix this by:

1. Reformatting the drive to Mac OS X Extended (Journaled if you want it to be a bootable drive) or

2. Pay for a third-party driver such as Paragon NTFS to allow the Mac to read and write to the drive as though it was native. $20 I think.

External drive problem

Thanks,

This is very helpful