External Hard Drive Privileges Questions

[ShadowX22]

Hey,

When I try to write to an EHD I get a insufficient privilege error. When I check it in the Disk Utility it shows Read-Only. How can I make it so I can write to it as well? Is it a setting I have to alter in Mac OSX or the EHD?

Note: I am not the primary user of the EHD, it's primary computer is a Windows XP. I am on a MacBook.

 

[mad jew]

It needs to be formatted as FAT32 for both Windows and Mac to read & write with it. Most likely this disk was formatted in Windows with NTFS and therefore Macs cannot write to it. I guess the best option is to reformat it as FAT32 (do this through Disk Utility on the Mac rather than through Windows so you can have larger partitions) or create a small FAT32 partition on the current drive. There are apps that let you write to NTFS from Mac but they're expensive. 🙂