I run my external HD on my macbook and my home PC which has XP. Now i just got my macbook about two weeks ago. yesterday, I was working on some of my music from my external on my macbook. However, when i went to move some files around on my external i was unable to do that. my mac wont let me move files around or change the artist in itunes. Is it because my hard drive isnt formated for mac? is there a way that i can use my hard drive on both my pc and mac? any step by step instruction would be apreciated.
Ok here is how you do this. Copy all of your stuff off of your external. Go to the go menu at the top of your screen on your mac. Select Utilitys. Then select Disk Utility. Select your external hard drive. Click partition tab. Select 2 partition's Then select format once completed you will now see two drives click one of the drives and format it in ms-dos (fat) in disk utility and you will now have a hard drive for both apple mac and for windows. Your issue is you are transfering files from ntsf to mac and ntsf is not supported in mac os x by formating the hard drive this way you will have a fat32 partition and a mac partition wich both os's can read.
