Having trouble moving files to external hard drive

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Having trouble moving files to external hard drive

I have a freeagent pc&mac ext. hd that i usually use on my pc. I have used it on my mac in the past but i tried trasnfering all of the music from my macbook to my ext. hd and i got the following error message: "The item could not be moved because FreeAgent" drive cannot be modified". Does anyone know how i can resolve this issue? Thank you.

Posted on Jun 13, 2008 5:47 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 13, 2008 6:48 AM in response to Jorge Zapata

How is the drive formatted? FAT or NTFS?

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Jorge Zapata Author

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Jun 13, 2008 7:09 AM in response to Templeton Peck

thank you for replying. Im not sure, how can i find this out? I just plugged the ext. hd in when i first got it and started using it.

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floba

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Jun 13, 2008 10:54 AM in response to Jorge Zapata

Open up Disk Utility, select the drive and check what's displayed as format in the lower left corner of the window.

floba

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Answer 4

Jun 13, 2008 11:35 AM in response to Jorge Zapata

I'm guessing that you can only WRITE files onto your ext in windows. But you can only READ files in ext from mac.

FAT32 would support writing files in windows and mac, but I doubt that you can format it to FAT32.

So if you want to write files to your ext from mac, then simply reformat it using DU

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