Formatting Help please?

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I have a portable drive (usb connected) that was formatted for windows xp and I cant seem to load it to be able to get a format on the disk. (IMac sees the drive and recognizes it) Is there a way around this problem? I have read what I have found and they seem to all talk about if it is a fixed HD in the machine already. I open the utilities and it will not let me drag the external usb connected drive to be able to format around the win xp formatting.
 
Yes, I want to format the drive so I can use it on my IMac to save photographs and music files. It was formated NTSF so my I Mac will not let me drag it into the window to be formatted / erased.
 
Use Disk Utility and format it for FAT for use on both PCs and Macs. HFS+ format for use only on your Macs.
 
That's the one. Follow the step by step instructions in Disk Utility and you should be OK.
 
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