Cant drag files to WD HD - it is formatted to Mac OS Extended (Journaled)??

Hi
I have my WD Hardrive formatted to my mac book air and have transfered files in the past with no problem- is it formatted to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) so I am not sure where I am going wrong considering its always been fine in the past..
There is plenty of space left on the HD?
I get a circle with a cross going through it over the files I am trying to drag.
My laptop is almost at capacity memory wise and I really need to offload some things to my HD ASAP!
Thanks

I meet all those requirements. core 2 duo and latest snow leopard. I have a late 2006 mac book. Maybe that's why. Its telling me that my hard drive isn't formatted correctly but it is formatted as they ask. It's not the hard drive that came with the macbook though.

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After losing an external drive [dont ask....] -   I got another one : 2TB WD formatted properly [ OS extended journalled for mac ] ready for action to move my thousands of files and images and ppts in hundreds of folders across from the laptop to this drive because I travel a bit with the laptop and this is too risky not to back up at home.
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hi Samberl
thanks a lot for the fast reply.
I was dragging folders from main folders on the laptop-desktop onto the external drive icon - to copy them across....
Your suggestion sounds very promising - I didn't know about 'cloning'.
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Would this be the sizeof the internal hard drive = c.500 gb ?   =   under the HD icon on desktop is written :
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I can erase and start agin on the new external drive - so this plan is to make two partititions, rather than the one at present, and make one of them 500 gb ?
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