Can't move/delete/create files on external drive created with windows xp

A friend of mine bought a brand new Maxtor External Hard drive. I connected it to my Windows XP machine and formatted it with NTFS and dumped 80Gig folder of data onto it.
When he took it home and plugged it into his Mac G5 running Tiger, it see's the firewire drive and accesses the folder, but he can't delete/move/rename/create files and folders on that drive.

I came across the same problem as well recently. I have thought about it for a long time but did not put it into practice. Yesterday I did it.
1) Copying my data in XP disk out into my Powerbook which cost me a lot of time to wait
2) In Windows XP, using Partition Magic (7.0) to delete the partition format of that disk (using the other tools should work as well)
3) Plug this empty disk into my Powerbook, then it prompted that I need to format it or something like that
4) Using Disk Utilities to format the disk as MS-DOS File Systems (FAT 32)
5) Moving the original data into the new formatted disk which could be read and written by both Powerbook and PC.
Everything is done! This is only my personal experience, not a general solution plan for this problem. Cheers all!
Powerbook G4 17" Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1.67GHz, 2GB DDR2, 120GB, SuperDrive, 128MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
Powerbook G4 17" Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1.67GHz, 2GB DDR2, 120GB, SuperDrive, 128MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

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