Back Up External Hard Drive PC.. Can I Make It work On My Mac?

I have a 75 gig High Speed USB 2.0 - PHR-100A external hard drive that i used for a old PC (it had windows xp on it) . Now i would like to use it as back up for my Mac. When i plug it into my Mac it shows as “untitled” in the devices sidebar. I can view the few files i have on it when i try to drag and drop a file i get
the item “item name” could not be moved because “untitled” cannot be modified.
same error if i try to delete a file on that HD.
Some other info you may need to know there are still some files from the windows os that for some reason i cant delete??
is there anything i can do or am i going to have to buy a Mac type ext HD
thanks
Brad

Hi,
if you don't need anything that's on that HD then just open up Disk Utility and partition the HD with 1 partition as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".
I suppose you currently can't move or delete stuff because the drive is formatted NTFS which is a Windows file system the Mac OS can only read but not write to.

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