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pegger · 2006-05-12, 16:43

Hoping someone can help. I have a Macbook Pto. I have mounted an external hard drive which I put all my files on from my PC before switching (primarily mp3's and pictures). The problem I am having is that when I went to put a new iphoto library on it and or move the existing one it tells me it can't do it. It seems that every folder on the drive is read only. The disk utility tells me it can read and write. Under the folder info there is no option as on the internal hard drive to switch it to read write, it is greyed out. I am a rookie to Mac so forgive me if I am overlooking something real simple here. Any help would be appreciated.

turbulentfurball · 2006-05-12, 17:10

Check how the HD is formatted. If it's formatted in NTFS, that's read-only in Mac OS X. If you want to use the drive to read and write files easily in both Windows and Mac OS X, you should use the FAT file system.

patrickatm08 · 2006-10-01, 15:45

I just got my first mac (first post on the new macintosh), and I am having this same problem. How do you go about reformatting the hard drive like said above?

Brad · 2006-10-01, 15:55

/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility

Select the drive in the panel on the left. Choose the Erase or Partition tab on the right and choose your options.

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turbulentfurball Right Honourable Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Québec	2006-05-12, 17:10 Check how the HD is formatted. If it's formatted in NTFS, that's read-only in Mac OS X. If you want to use the drive to read and write files easily in both Windows and Mac OS X, you should use the FAT file system.
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patrickatm08 Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: College Station, TX	2006-10-01, 15:45 I just got my first mac (first post on the new macintosh), and I am having this same problem. How do you go about reformatting the hard drive like said above? White Macbook 2.0, 1gb RAM, 60gb HDD 1gb Shuffle, 4gb 2gen silver Mini Shure e4 headphones
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Brad Selfish Heathen administrator Join Date: May 2004 Location: Zone of Pain	2006-10-01, 15:55 /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility Select the drive in the panel on the left. Choose the Erase or Partition tab on the right and choose your options.
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