having problem with my portable hard drive.


i cant save file,transfer file,or even delete the file in the portable.
when i check at the portable info it change to read-file only.
how to change it?
coz i don't set it as read-file only.
but when i use it on a pc.its just normal,can do everything
when i use it on mac.
its stuck.
i cant even save a file in the portable.
or even to copy the file from the portable.
the only thing i can do is just read the file.

how to solve this problem?
help me.....

This post has been edited by artfiq14: Dec 28 2006, 02:20 AM

go to the HDD,press CTRL and click your mouse and go to Get Info
Under permission,tick all

yes i know bout the go to hdd+ctrl get info. but the thing is i cant change the permisson.
cant do anything at all. just read file

yes i know bout the go to hdd+ctrl get info. but the thing is i cant change the permisson.
cant do anything at all. just read file


see the pic

This post has been edited by artfiq14: Dec 28 2006, 12:38 PM


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friend, your problem is this:


Mac OS X does not support NTFS at the moment. If you want to share a drive with Windows & Mac, format it in FAT32.

More reading: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75320

This post has been edited by wei: Dec 28 2006, 12:54 PM

owhhhhhhhhhhh....i seeeee.......thanks alot wei! n you guys too

wei,already tried to format it back on pc.but the only format can do is NTFS. no FAT32

can format using mac? how?

problem solve.thanks guys. really appreciate.

my guess is that ur HDD is more than 32GB.......
u can only format it in FAT32 if your hard disc is 32GB or less...

what i did on my 80GB portable is i partitioned it into 3 equal partitions....then format 2 of the partitions in FAT32 and the other one in NTFS for windows use.....

hope that helps...

if you want to format entire portable hardisk,
why dont u use Disk Utilitiy in the Mac OS X.
erase and format it using MS-DOS File system(if u want both OSes can read n write)

just FYI...

This post has been edited by hairol83: Dec 28 2006, 03:22 PM