Macfuse is your answer Natively, a mac can only read NTFS disks, not write to them. Install Macfuse. Charlie On Sep 16, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Neil wrote: > I copied some of my friends home movies from VHS into iPod > compatible mp4. He brought me his portable USB hard drive from his > Windows pc to me, but I got some kind of "can't write to this > volume" error message when I tried to copy his videos to his drive. > I have no trouble reading the contents of his drive. It has his > iTunes music on it so he can take it with him to the bar where he > DJs. The drive had plenty of free space and I didn't use any kind > of DRM on the video files. Does anybody have any idea what is going > on and what's the easiest way I can give him his videos? I thought > it would be easier to copy the files to his hard drive rather than > burning a bunch of data DVDs. Thanks. > > Neil > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price > http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal > >