I am having trouble dropping items into my external hardrive

I have purchased a samsung external hard drive for putting all my photos etc on.  I thought I could just drag and drop the items into it but it isn't working.  What do I have to do to get started with it??

SOunds like that external harddisk is using a WIndows file system. Most likely NTFS (NT file system).
Verify with Disk Utility if that's the case.
If so and you don't need what is on the external harddisk, then use Disk Utility to repartition/reformat it for use with your Mac.
Use GPT as partition table and MacOS Extended (Journaled) as file system.
Stefan

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