New Macbook Air OS X 10.7 | Lion | Old iPhoto Library Ext Drive

My iPhoto library is too big to operate on a MacBook Air so i use a 1.5t Seagate drive to store my iPhoto Library. I bought a new MacBook Air with Lion and using the normal way I have opened my iphoto Library holding Option key the systems says the library is locked my iPhoto library is 123gb; the iPhoto files says iphotolock.data
I tried copying files to my macbook air but that doesnt work

What format is the Seagate?

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