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I wish to copy files from my mac to the drive, it wont allow me.

But when I open and copy files from the drive to the mac it works.

How do I fix this without formatting the drive Will setting up the time machine of my mac erase the contents on the drive Thank you.

The only way you can do that is to reformat the drive to either so that it will be for Macs to write to or you can format it to FAT and it can read and write to both.

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Also check out the other discussion that I provided as another user found a 3rd party piece of software that may assist you further if you do not want to reformat the drive.

Unfortuantely I cant do that at the moment because I would have to buy another 1TB drive just to back the files up, and do not have money to spend like that for another 2 or 3 months.

However, I have found a way to work around this is to install a micrisoft windows operating system on the make via a virtual machine, where your mac and the virtual machine are like intergrated, so that the desktop on the Mac is shared to the desktop on the virtual PC inside the mac.

Then move the NTFS drive to be connected to the virtual pc, and then drag and drop the files or copy and pase them from the mac onto the drive that is connected to the virtual pc, which is connected physically to on your Macs USB.

So the idea would be to have one drive be your Time Machine back up and the other drive be the drive that you can use between a Mac and Windows and have it formatted for FAT32 for the cross compatibility.

This is how I did it: Copy the files onto an SD card, then move the files from the SD card onto the new PC hard drive.

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