[terance]

I took the HDD out of my old windows computer (parted it out here on head-fi) and I bought an external inclosure on newegg and the installation was no problem.

When I plug it into my macbook (USB2.0) it says that I have Read Only Permissions.

This is understandable, but is there anyway to format the HDD and use it as a backup for my macbook?

thanks head-fi i am glad you are back up!

 

[AlanY]

Open Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility, select the hard drive, then click format.

 

[terance]

apple disk utility did the trick, no need to worry! (thank you very much alan!)

i hope wasteful posts like this one didn't mess up head-fi in the first place