Hey, I'm trying to figure out how to get my files on my external hardrive not to be "read only" because I recently got a Mac Book Pro. My problem is, I think, that I keep loading the files to the mac OS X side of the computer when I should do it to the Windows side. Then comes my big problem I dont know how to fix because I dont know much about macs yet. I happened to click the message "Do not show this message again" when choosing the mac or windows side. So I dont know how to get this message to come up again so then I can pick which side I want the Hard drive to load to.. If anyone knows how I can redo this mistake I made :S or has any other Idea i would greatly appreciate it Thank you so much! l jsym l

I don't know about how to make the message show up again, but as for the read only files, I have an idea.

After a little researching on what I think your problem is based off of your description, I have a question for you:

What file system does the hard drive use?

I don't know much about Macs, but from what I've heard Mac OS X can only read from NTFS drives. It can't write to them.

If this is your problem, this link might help.

If not, I have no other ideas.

Edit - You might also want to look through these forums/discussions to see if anyone else has the same problems.

Hey i did all of this and I just dont know hoew to avtually "run" the program? As in i don't know how to switch it to read on both windows and mac.

if there is a tutorial on how to do this or you know i would greatly appreciate it.

thanks again

alright I got it figured out. I read on some parrallel forums and found out what I needed to do. Thanks to everyone!

alright I got it figured out. I read on some parrallel forums and found out what I needed to do. Thanks to everyone!