External Hard Drive will the MBP read it?

Hi all, i am about to purchase a MBP 13, and i am concerned about my data. I have a lot of data--92 gigs worth. Last night I put everything, all of it, on a WD My Passpoort Essentials, but its in NTSF format, and my HP is not letting me change the drive's format to anything other than NTFS. I have no problem reformating to HSB#%^???? when I get the MBP, but I just want to make sure i can UNLOAD all my 92 Gigs onto the MBP first. Being in NTSF, will I be able to do that?

OS X 10.6 has, by default, the ability to mount NTFS drives as read only. So yes, you will be able to read that data and thus copy it onto your laptop's drive.
If you want to read AND write to an NTFS there are 3rd party applications that will let you do that (OS X actually can too, if you use some command line codes when mounting it, but its NTFS writing ability seems to be a still-in-work feature).
Once you've copied the stuff off it though, you can use disk utility to reformat it. Use MS-DOS format (Apple-speak for FAT32) if you want to still be able to use it on a windows machine as well as your Mac.

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