hard drive 'read only'

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Hi,
i bought a OMISYS 400GB External Hard Disk Drive USB 2.0 400 GB off ebay. Now, i plugged it into my pc, and it works okay, although the first few times it kinda froze up a bit. But when i plug it into my ibook G4 it comes up on the desktop fine but then if i try to put anything onto it, it says it's read only. How do i change this, and why is it working fine on the PC? it doesn't make sense. I've looked and there's no lock swith on it. any ideas?

Rena
 
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And now, after i've upgraded to os x 10.4.10, it doesn't even show up on the desktop at all when i plug it in! it's working fine on the pc though?
 

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Hi there rena and welcome !

You will need to refoemat the drive as Fat32 if you want to be able to read and write on both Mac and PC.

Have a read through his post.

regards

Ric
 

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