Setting up a Vault on an external drive

Being a novice with my new iMac sure can be frustrating at times, so I appreciate the help in forums such as this. I wanted to set up a Vault on an external hard drive, but it says the drive is locked. I had previously used this drive for backing up my PC files, and have not had any problems copying data from the drive into my photo library and importing images into Aperture, but it doesn't seem to let me set up a vault on this drive. What's curious is that I have a 2nd external drive which was also used on a PC as a backup device, and Aperture let me set up a Vault on that drive. Any suggestions on how to "unlock" the other drive?
Thanks for your help.
Bob

alright ... here we go ...
every drive has to be formatted ... whether you do or you buy it that way ...
most likely one is formatted NTFS, and the other FAT32, especially since you can write to one and not the other ...
did you use both with windoze ???
Mac OS X uses HFS+ but can write to FAT32 ...
what you are going to have to do is copy all the data over to your local disk and reformat the externals ... both of them ... using disk utility (in Utilities folder in /Applications - the Erase tab) ...

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