Imac won't recognize all files on external.....

Hi guys, fairly new to apple here so this is prolly an easy fix. I have a late 06 early 07 17 in imac running 10.4.11 Problem is, i recently purchased a seagate 1TB external hard drive. Well, Mac reads all of my pictures, folder with audio books..... it reads music and movie folders, but reads music and movies as empty with no contents. I can plug the same hard drive back into my pc laptop and it works perfectly all files are present...... please help, any ideas or fixes will be greatly appreciated.....

A drive purchased new will likely be formatted NTFS. Tiger can read NTFS but can't write to it. I'm guessing this may present problems when trying to create a Mac directory of the files actually present on that drive.
Various options.
Format drive (backup files first!!) to FAT32. Downside is FAT32 has file size limit of 4GB so no good if used for huge files (many small still OK). Also FAT32 can't be repaired by Mac disc repair tools.
Format drive to Mac Extended. Downside is PC can't read drive unless you get special software for PC.
Uh, I think there's a third options which is software to enable Mac to work with NTFS but I don't recall it being an ideal solution.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9180769#9180769

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