Plugged in external drive, how do i delete?

[thedon1]

I connected my external hard drive, formatted to ntfs.

I want to delete a few things but i can't. The drive seems to be read only.

How do i get around this?

 

[swiftaw]

OSX can only read NTFS, not write. There is a plugin that allows you to write to a NTFS drive, but I can't think what it's called, MacFUSE maybe?

 

[old-wiz]

there are 3rd party addons for OSx to read/write NTFS. IIRc it's ntfs-3g.

 

[spinnerlys]

Read the following:

FAT32

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• No individual file larger than 4GB.

NTFS

• Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
• Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write NTFS from Leopard: Install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.
• To Read/Write NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
• (Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard)

HFS

• Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive