Question on Read and Write of external hard disk on Mac and PC

[SMC]

Hi, I have a problem. Jus bought an imac and i realise that the data save in my external harddisk(PC formatted) can only be read but no writing is allowed when its connect to my mac. Anyway I can allow both read and write in both platform?

Thanks for reading!
Cheers
SS

 

[Parka]

Hi, I have a problem. Jus bought an imac and i realise that the data save in my external harddisk(PC formatted) can only be read but no writing is allowed when its connect to my mac. Anyway I can allow both read and write in both platform?

Thanks for reading!
Cheers
SS

Just format it to FAT32. It can be read and written by Mac and Windows.

 

[madmacs]

before you format the hdd which i assume is in ntfs format, go install these 2 pieces of software

macfuse

ntfs-3g

they will allow you to read/write to an external hdd.

 

[SMC]

Thanks for the quick reply, will try them out!

cheers
ss