Is there anyway to read information that was saved in Snow Leopard after upgrading to Lion?

I switched to a new Mac notebook that is running Lion, my older Macbook was running Snow Leopard, now the new laptop won't read the external hard drive I had used to back things up on my old machine. I don't want to delete everything I have on the drive to be able to use it with Leopard, are there any other options?

melissaleah79 wrote:
I switched to a new Mac notebook that is running Lion, my older Macbook was running Snow Leopard, now the new laptop won't read the external hard drive I had used to back things up on my old machine. I don't want to delete everything I have on the drive to be able to use it with Leopard, are there any other options?
Lion can read and write to the same formats as Snow Leopard could, which begs a question or two ...
How is the external drive formatted? do you also use it with a Windows machine, can you open Disk Utility and tell me how it is formatted?

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