Formatting my hard Disk.

[.fred]

So,

I have a 80GB External HDD just for school stuff, and it is formatted for Windows. Thus, My permissions are "read only". I cannot write on it, or transfer stuff into it. Is there a way to format it for both Windows and Mac so i can both read and write?

Preferbly, I would like the data in it.

 

[.fred]

I heard MacFuse enables Mac to read NTFS files?

Can the experts advice me on this?

 

[kwabena]

Disk Utility

use disk utility. this comes with mac os x. app>utilities>disk utility.
your hard disk will be shown. select it and select erase. then select
ms-dos file system and click erase free space. and when that's done it can be used on your and a pc