External hard drive not allowing me to read & write

I have an external hard drive(seagate 250 NTFS format) which i have used on my windows 7 computer now that i'm trying to load the information onto my macbook pro (10.7.4) it will not let me change the permissions nor duplicate the files. How can I be able to edit and save the information to my mac from the external drive??

You should be able to read the data... but not make any changes. The title of your thread says your can't read or write... is that correct? By default, OS X cannot write to an NTFS formatted drive (it's a licensing thing with Microsoft and their proprietary filesystem). If you wish to share the drive between a Windows machine and your Mac, you should format the drive as exFAT. This format is compatible with both OS X and Windows. Of course, make sure you have the data on the drive elsewhere before formatting it.

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Hi
I have a Mac Book Pro and a 60GB external Hard Drive which I use to transfer files between my Win PC (!!) and my Mac. transferring files from PC to Mac is fine using the HDD but when I try to copy files from my Mac to the HDD it says I cannot write to the drive as it is read only. How do i make it writable as well as readable. Its formatted as Windows NT Filesystem if that helps.

mp_photo wrote:
Its formatted as Windows NT Filesystem if that helps.
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Reformat the external drive to FAT32 (using Disk Utility and 'MS-DOS'),
but be aware of the the size limit of 4GB for a single file
use MacFuse: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
Caution: reformatting the drive will delete all files on it, so make a backup before.
Regards
Stefan

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