External HDD showing as read only?

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  1. Shawh, Apr 16, 2010

    Shawh macrumors newbie

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    Hi, I recently purchased this external hard drive. I transferred several GB of movies/TV shows/music onto it from a Windows 7 PC. Now that I've hooked it up to my Macbook (10.6.2), it shows up as read only. I have no idea what the first step is to remedy this problem!
     
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  2. bwhinnen, Apr 17, 2010

    bwhinnen macrumors 6502

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    By design, all NTFS partitions are read-only by default on Snow Leopard. You have two ways of changing this, the best is to use NTFS-3G in conjunction with MacFUSE as it gives better results than making the in-built OSX one mount read-write.
     
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