Problem with using Seagate 1tb external hdd with my macbook!

Hi... I just bought online Seagate 1tb external HDD without knowing that it's not MacOSx compatible...
I heard that I can format it to fat32 to make it mac compatible...
Would it work? Or what else can I do except returning it back?
Thank you in advance for any help...

Hi laundry beach... Thanks...
here is the seagate's page about the 1tb EHD:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/freeagent/freeagent_go/#tTabC ontentSpecifications
And this is the link by seagate for how to format the drive for mac:
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=how-to-reformat-your-dri ve-dn&vgnextoid=da3bd85104b51210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD
it says PC compatible but not mac compatible... that's why I think that it's not mac compatible...
So does that make sense to use it by formating it to some mac compatible state?
Or would it work without seams?

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