I AM TRYING TO GET A SONY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE TO WORK WITH MY COMPUTER

I bought a Sony external Hard Drive, but its not working with my Macbook

It is probably formatted for Windows.  You will have to reformat it for Mac in Disk Utility>Erase or download an application such as Paragon or Tuxera  to read and write to it.
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