[judge]

HELPPP PLEASEEEE

I have a macbook pro, my dad had a toshiba sattelite laptop (microsoft windows 2000).
My dads laptop recently has broken and he has removed the hard drive, he has put it in a cradle and i plugged it into my macbook pro via the usb port. the harddrive shows up and i can view items on it, BUT I CANT PUT A FILE FROM MY MAC TO THIS MSW HARD DRIVE!!!!! I assume this is because it is microsoft windows, and i am using Mac, but i heard there are programs you can download so i can put files from my mac onto his hard drive!
If anyone could help with my problem i would really appreciate it, other wise i will have to buy a brand new external hard drive as i need to get rid of 15-20gb of my dads photos!
thanks alot
Judge

[mfbernstein]

Probably the drive is formatted using NTFS. MacOS X has no built-in support to write to NTFS volumes (as you see, it can read them).

The MacFUSE project has an NTFS module that does support writing, but it isn't particularly fast for external drives.

A simpler solution, if you have Windows installed on your MBP via Boot Camp, would be to install a demo of the program MacDrive in Windows. That'll let you copy data off your Mac partition onto the external NTFS drive quickly, without much hassle.

[Powerbook]

? If your dad's machine is broken, shouldn't you get the data OFF the drive ?

As already written, modern Windows has (normally) NTFS as filessystem which is read only for MacOS.

PB.

[judge]

thanks guys, but it seems that my mac wont even recognise the hd now.... piece of sh%t
i downloaded the stuff you said ntfs but now cant get hd to show up on mac
thanks for trying to help

[Frugle]

?

but yeah, you can't write to NTSF, only FAT32.....

[mfbernstein]

No, if one has MacFUSE and NTFS-3G, one _can_ write to NTFS partitions. That said, it sounds as if the external drive may be dying. Does it show up in Apple's Disk Utility?