Problem with external device and my new mac

I have a maxtor onetouch 200gb. I just bought an ibook G4, and when I connect my hard drive I recieve a message saying the device is not readable by this computer. I tried the device on a pc, and it still works. The device is fat32 formated, and as far as I know this should not cause any problems with mac. I also tried to download mac drivers for the device, but it still doesn't work.
Does anyone have something that can help me?

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If you need it formatted FAT32, reformat it on your Mac. Use MS-DOS (FAT32) as the file system. If you don't need it for both PC and Mac, format it HFS+ and you'll be able to use the Retrospect Express software that came with it on your Mac.
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