My Mac doesn't read my Iomega drive

[Antonio Correia]

I am on a Mac OS X processor 2.8 Core 17 with 16 GB of memory at 1067 MHZ DDR3
I bought today an Iomega drive to backup my files.
When I connected the external drive for the first time the Mac asked if I wanted to use it as Back up disk. I said no.

I thought I could drag and drop the files as I usualy do on the other external drive I have been using for a long time now, but I can only read the new Iomega not write and I don't know how to change that.
I do have right clicked but nothing so far.

 

[jbarley]

It has a NT file system on it, designed for MS windows.
Go into Disk Utility and partition and format the drive for Apple file system and all will be good.

 

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you JBarley for your tip.

It was very east indeed...

I would have lost hours looking for such a simple procedure... and get nervous

 

[djackmac]

You will also probably want to repartition it to GUID instead of Master Boot Record. Otherwise you may have some strange problems, especially if you want to use Time Machine.

 

[Antonio Correia]

Well DJackmac, in fact I am already using Time Machine for automatic back-up instead of making simple and manual backups from my documents, photos, whatever.
It was an unusual / unpratical procedure I have been doing with my now full Lacie Disk for long time.
From now on I will use the Lacie only for music, photos and cinema.

I think - correct me if I am wrong please - that making automatic back-ups all the work is done and everything is available at any time.

Thank you for your advice and concern.
Thumbs up !
A Moon shot for a change LOL