Is your hard drive NTFS? You can check this in disk utility. If it is, that would explain your problems - OS X can only read NTFS, but not write. If you want to write to your drive youw ill need to format it to a different filesystem, either HFS if you'll only be using it on macs, or FAT32/XFAT if you'll be using it on both mac and windows. The difference between FAT32 and XFAT is that FAT32 supports drives up to 2TB and one file can be up to 4GB in size. XFAT doesn't have those limitations, but it's only supported on XP SP3 and up as well as OS X 10.6.6 and newer. And obviously, if you'll be reformatting the drive you'll first need to copy the files off of it before you do it since you'll lose everything otherwise. On 31 Jan 2014, at 10:23 am, Dionipher Presas Herrera <dionip...@gmail.com> wrote:
> can somebody tell me why cant i modify my external hard drive? i try to > delete something o my hard drive and it dont do anything. thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
