Need Help Reformating My External Hard Drive

[djkilo]

I have 2 WD External Hard Drive Im trying to copy files from one to the other it wont let me because its read only..If i Reformat the one with the files so i can copy it using my imac would i lose my files in there?

 

[Hellhammer]

Yes, formatting erases all data. What format are they using now? They may be in NTFS and then you could just download NTFS-3G and get read and write access to NTFS volumes

 

[miles01110]

Yes, reformatting will erase the drive.

 

[djkilo]

yes its in NTFS.. how can i copy it to my other hard drive on a mac

 

[Hellhammer]

yes its in NTFS.. how can i copy it to my other hard drive on a mac

NTFS-3G lets you read and write NTFS volumes

 

[djkilo]

so i just install this and it will let me copy to my other hard drive on my imac

 

[Hellhammer]

so i just install this and it will let me copy to my other hard drive on my imac

Yes, it should.

 

[djkilo]

it says this [The finder cannot complete this operation because some data in"name of file" could not be read or written. (Error Code-36)