Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Seagate external USB HD problem

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Not a regular to this part of the forum, but I'm hoping someone might be able to help me.

Basically I'm making an animation at uni, and decided that I'd use my seagate portable HD as a means of backing up my work (clicky for link to HD) . The HD has been formatted in NTFS and is usually at home plugged into my XP pro computer (with no problems). It's got at least 150 gig of storage capacity left.
Basically whenever I try to use it on the macs at uni (all running OS X v10.4) I have no problem taking data from the HD (I.E watching video, listening to music etcetc), but.. I can't save to the HD. I simply get a message similar to "xxxx cannot be written to 'seagate', you cannot alter folder 'seagate'" (I can't remember the exact msg, but it's similar to that.

So basically I need to find out whether it's simple a problem with os x and NTFS or is it something as simple as changing the read/write options for the drive?, I'm a total mac noob (well, been using them for years, but in a purely task-specific manor).

Any help much appreciated :).
 
Nope, OS X can't write NTFS as it's a Windows-only party. It can, however, read and write Fat32. There are 3rd party apps that will let a Windows machine read and write HFS+ (OS X's file system) partitions as well.
 
Aha, thankyou kindly sah.

I don't suppose there's a way to create a fat32 partition on my NTFS hd?.
 
Would something like partition magic not be able to resize the ntfs partition?

Allegedly it can even convert an NTFS partition to FAT32.

You'd want a backup first, though.
 
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