Using exernal HD from PC

I need to take a HD out of my PC and put into a external case for use with my macbook.
I hear that you can read it but not write to it on a Mac?
What do I need to do to use it?

Windows supports two filesystems: NTFS and FAT. NTFS is readbale, but not writable in Mac OS X. FAT is readable and writable.
You can actually setup write access to NTFS disks using the NTFS-3G plugin to MacFUSE -- but that's a huge headache unless you're very comfortable with UNIX and the UNIX command line.
If you plan to move the disk back-and-forth between Mac and PC, you want to use the FAT32 format. You could copy all the contents off the drive, reformat it in the FAT32 format (Mac's Disk Utility program erroneously labels this MS-DOS), and then copy the files back.
If you plan to use the disk exclusively with Mac OS X, you want to use the HFS Journaled filesystem and you can use the Disk Utility program on the Mac to do so.
Note that the same basic advice hold true for Linux as well as OS X.

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