Downloading to a external hard drive

i recently bought a toshiba 1tb external hard drive, to transfer all my video downloads (vuze) fom my old pc to my new imac, i can watch all these on my imac no problems, but when i try and download straight to my hdd from vuze it doesnt work it comes up with 'THE DESTINATION' / VOLUMES/TOSHIBA EXT DOES NOT EXIST OR IS INVALID. if i down load straight to my vuze folder on my imac that works but i then cant copy it to my external hdd, it wont copy over i cant dra and drop it, i've tried saving it to a different folder and doing it that way, just no luck.
when i right click the toshiba hdd it says format: windows nt file system (ntfs)
when i go onto disc format it says format ms-dos (fat) i read somewhere aout tryig to rformat it and changing it to MS OS EXTENDED and erasing that to reformat it, but that doesnt work either
if someone could help me out i can use a computer but i'm not tech savvy lol that would be great thanks in advance

I suspect the EHD is currently formated as a NTFS drive which OS X can read but cannot write to. I'd suggest temporarily moving all the data from the EHD to the internal HD on the iMac. Then use Disk Utility to reformat the EHD to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with a GUID partition. Then move all the data you copied onto the internal HD back onto the reformated EHD.
I'd also recommend strongly against attempting to share and EHD with a PC. Due to the low cost of EHDs there isn't any reason to do this, if you want to share files, then simply use the file sharing in OS X and MS Windows to do so.

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