Using my external hard drive with my Mac?

I have a Maxtor external hard drive I used with my Dell.  Can I use it with my Mac?  Any worries about simply connecting it and seeing what will happen?

My best guess is it's formatted as NTFS, if that is the case OS X can read  NTFS files but cannot write to a NTFS formatted drive. You can fix that by downloading NTFS-3G
OR
you can reformat the drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) in Disk Utility. If you are sharing this drive with a PC then I'd recommend the NTFS-3G option
if it's only to be used by the Mac then reformat it.
You can download NTFS-3G at: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/24481/ntfs-3g
To reformat here are instructions:  http://www.ehow.com/how_2063795_format-hard-drive-mac-os.html

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