How To Read Fat32 On Mac Osx Tiger

well, still in the process of switching over to mac. got my pci usb 2.0 in, added a 160gb HD BUT....


How do i read or prepare and internal windows98 formatted drive with my mac? i plugged it in and turned it on and it recognized the drive and said it couldn't read it. i chose "initialize" and thats as far as i got. should i have chosen ignore? what am i doing wrong????

EDIT: its a western digital 1gb hd and has a quite a few files on it that i want to transfer. documents, music, etc...

i hit initialize but nothing happened except disk utility opened.

how do i change the permissions?

EDIT: disk uitility says the write status is read/write. i reset the mac and the same message appears i chose ignore and nothing happened [guess normal?]

well turns out the hd was bunk. cuz i hooked up the second hd from the pc and it just popped up on the screen. it was a quantum fireball HD. western digitals are usually pretty cheap but i always hear ppl have problems with them...

anyway thanx for the help