[jasonscott71]

Hi everyone. I recently bought a Seagate hard drive and an external enclosure for it. I never formatted a hard drive before so I asked a friend to do it for me, which he did. But only on my PC.

When I plugged it into my Mac, the Mac recognized the disc, but I can't move any files to the new drive. I am guessing that's because it also has to be formatted for Mac. Is that correct? And if so, how do I do it?

I tried to move a file and the response was: "The item could not be moved because 'hard drive' can not be modified."

Please help. Thanks for any suggestions.

[mduell]

Open up Disk Utility and delete the partition(s) on the external and create a new one.

[jasonscott71]

Sorry in advance if this sounds underinformed:

It wasn't partitioned into separate drives. It was done as one drive. But there are 2 entries in disk utility. One says 465.8GB cremax tech co and the other says IcyDock, which was the temp nickname I gave the drive. Which do I click erase for and then what do I do?

Thanks,
Jason

[peeb]

Yes. It is formatted for a pc (NTFS) and needs to be formatted for your Mac (HFS+).
Delete both of the ones you have, and then format it.