External drive dosn't work anymore.

[Wraz]

Im not sure where to post this but.
I dont know what happen, but my Digital western external harddrive dosn't work anymore?
I can see the files but i can only copy the files from it and transfer to my mac.
I cant read or write? what do i do?

 

[patrickdunn]

Right click on the drive>Get Info>Permissions

Un-check Read-Only.

Did that help?

 

[Wraz]

Already tryed that. but i can't seem to change it.


But as you can see on the screenshot. its on danish, but basicly wat is say is that i can only read.

 

[Cave Man]

The drive was initialized as NTFS out of the box. You need two apps to read it: NTFS-3G and MacFUSE (both freeware). Install them then you can read/write to the external. Unless you have a compelling reason to keep it as NTFS, then you should consider reinitialize the drive as HFS+ with journaling (after retrieving any critical files from it).

 

[OriginalFormula]

Use Disk Utility to reformat into either HFS+ or FAT32.

 

[Wraz]

Use Disk Utility to reformat into either HFS+ or FAT32.

That would delete all my files right?

 

[SnowLeopard2008]

That would delete all my files right?

Yes, it would.

But before you bother installing 3rd party drivers to read the NTFS, Snow Leopard has this function built-in, but you have to enable it. Here's a thread that details that process:

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=8477762&posted=1#post8477762

This ONLY works on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.