I have a seagate external hard drive that is recognized by my computer but i can

[Guest]

My seagate drive works fine on my mac but when I connect to my windows laptop it is recognised but I cannot use it to store anything. Can anyone help me?

 

[nhasian]

its probably formatted with the mac file system HPFS which is not readable by default in windows.

http://www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html

What is HFSExplorer?

HFSExplorer is an application that can read Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images.
It can read the file systems HFS (Mac OS Standard), HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) and HFSX (Mac OS Extended with case sensitive file names).