Newbie help needed. Cant save to a WD Elements Hard Drive!!!Going Crazy!

We got our imac yesterday! Love it but.....only real issue that is driving me crazy and ruining the experience is that I can't save a pages doc to my WD Elements External Hard Drive. It is installed I can move stuff from it but nothing to it! When I select save as and pick "Elements" a message appears saying <the document "Test" could not be saved as "test". Read-only file system. Can any one explain
Message was edited by: wyleybruce

OSX can read but not write to NTFS formatted disks. If you want to keep the disk as NTFS, there are utilities (like NTFS3G ) you can get that will allow you to save to the disk as it is currently formatted.
IMHO it would be better for you to reformat the disk as Mac OS Extended if you intend to use it on an ongoing basis with your new Mac. But remember to back up anything you want or need to keep, because reformatting will erase everything that is on the drive.
(Notes: If you reformat the disk to Mac OS Extended and then you want to use it with a Windows system, you will need Macdrive on the Windows machine. The only format that is natively compatible on both platforms is FAT32.)

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