Making my Canvio Connect read/write on two different macs

I bought the Canvio Connect, and it works fine. I bought it for my laptop, but want to plug and write to it on my iMac. But when I plug it into my iMac, it's read only. Is there an easy way around this or am i stuck with read on one machine and read/write on another?
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
Did you reformat your ext HDD before you used it? because it says on their website that for this canvio connect:
Toshiba Canvio® Connect Portable Drives are preformatted NTFS for Windows® 8, 7, and Windows® XP. Plus, the drive comes with a NTFS driver for Mac® allowing you to store and access files from the PC and Mac® without reformatting.
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