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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1649885" data-attributes="member: 131855">The drive is probably formatted NTSF since it was used on a PC. You can't create new folders because the Mac cannot natively write to NTSF drives without a hack or third party software. It can read things/copy from the drive As I see it you have three options:1. If you will be using the drive only with Macs copy everything important to another drive and use your Mac to format the drive as HFS+&nbsp; Extended Journaled. The PC won't be able to use it without third-party software.2. Copy data from this drive and reformat it as FAT32. Both machines will read and write to the drive but no single file can be larger than 4 GB.3. Get a third-party driver that let's the Mac read and write to the drive. I recommend <a href="http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/" target="_blank">Paragon NTFS for Mac® - First NTFS driver for OS X Yosemite - Overview</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1649885, member: 131855"] The drive is probably formatted NTSF since it was used on a PC. You can't create new folders because the Mac cannot natively write to NTSF drives without a hack or third party software. It can read things/copy[B] from[/B] the drive As I see it you have three options: 1. If you will be using the drive[B] only with Macs[/B] copy everything important to another drive and use your Mac to format the drive as HFS+ Extended Journaled. The PC won't be able to use it without third-party software. 2. Copy data from this drive and reformat it as FAT32. Both machines will read and write to the drive but [B]no single file can be larger than 4 GB.[/B] 3. Get a third-party driver that let's the Mac read and write to the drive. I recommend [url=http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/]Paragon NTFS for Mac® - First NTFS driver for OS X Yosemite - Overview[/url] [/QUOTE]

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