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<blockquote data-quote="Gareth Marsh" data-source="post: 40362" data-attributes="member: 561">Re: A little help for a new Mac user?I hit exactly the same snag when I first started using a mac.MacOS cannot write to NTFS as standard. As you have noted it is able to read from NTFS drives fine.What I did was format my external drive to MacOS Extended and then put a program called MacDrive (from Mediafour I think) onto my Windows machines so I can read and write to that drive.MacOS will read and write to FAT32 formatted drives, which is what most memory sticks are so they normally work straight away. I stayed away from using FAT for external drives as I believe it has some issues with larger files.Take a look at <a href="http://guides.macrumors.com/Drives_and_Filesystems" target="_blank">http://guides.macrumors.com/Drives_and_Filesystems</a> for a bit of info on the different formats.HTHGareth</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gareth Marsh, post: 40362, member: 561"] Re: A little help for a new Mac user? I hit exactly the same snag when I first started using a mac. MacOS cannot write to NTFS as standard. As you have noted it is able to read from NTFS drives fine. What I did was format my external drive to MacOS Extended and then put a program called MacDrive (from Mediafour I think) onto my Windows machines so I can read and write to that drive. MacOS will read and write to FAT32 formatted drives, which is what most memory sticks are so they normally work straight away. I stayed away from using FAT for external drives as I believe it has some issues with larger files. Take a look at [URL]http://guides.macrumors.com/Drives_and_Filesystems[/URL] for a bit of info on the different formats. HTH Gareth [/QUOTE]

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