Making a Ekstern HDD work whit Mac

Hi
I've bought a new Ekstern HDD (harddrive) runnig from USB....any one know how to make it work so i can write on it?
Thanks in advance.
Mathias

yes of course.
with this operation you format your external HD and you LOST all your data on that drive.
open applications--Utilities--Disk Utility
select your external HD
click on Erase tab
select Mac OS Extended volume format
chose your hd name
click erase
if you use that drive also with Windows select FAT32 format

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