I can only read on my external usb hardrive

Hello There,
I could need some help
When I plug my "Samsung SP1604N Media Mass-Storage-Device" to my (brand new :-)) iBook, i'm only "allowed" to read but not to write on the single volume, that is formatted in Windows NTFS format.
First, I thought I can't plug windows formatted devices to a mac in general, but a friend's hdd worked pretty well.. it's formatted in NTFS too.
So I tried to plug my external hdd to a windows xp pc and it worked normal.
I'm not very good in those "things", so I tried to download some drivers, but it didn't work. Actually it's maybe not a driver thing, but as is said I'm an amateur.
so please, dear mac-comunity, tell me the big truth about my "disturbed" hardrive. Is there sth i can do about it?
Thanx in advance
Dan
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Hi Dan,
Welcome to the Discussions.
NTFS disks are read only on a Mac. There's no driver available that will allow you to write to one that's connected directly to your Mac. Your friends may be formatted FAT32, which a Mac can read and write to. You could format yours FAT32 and use it on both platforms. Use your Mac to format if (MS-DOS with Disk Utility) as it has no size limits on formatting FAT32 disks.
John

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