toshiba usb 2.0 external hard drive "cannot be modified"

[rsolis251]

Hi i have a mac book pro with OS X version 10.5.8. i recently bought a toshiba 320 GB USB 2.0 external hard drive - which on the box said compatible with Mac and leopard. I plugged it in and all it has is .exe and windows set up files that dont run on my mac, and i try to drag things into the hard drive and it tells me TOSHIBA EXT cannot be modified. PLease help asap

 

[miles01110]

Reformat it.

http://www.google.com/search?q=refo...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

 

[spinnerlys]

Format Your Hard Drive Using Disk Utility

Partition Your Hard Drive With Disk Utility

FAT32

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• No individual file larger than 4GB.

NTFS

• Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
• Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write NTFS from Leopard: Install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.
• To Read/Write NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
• (Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard)

HFS

• Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive
• To Read HFS (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer