I just bought this HDD second handed (I have a USB 2 card, no worries there) from a friend, he erased the entire HD for me at his place but I'm only allowed to 'read' on the disk when I plug it in to my Mac!
I tried rebooting, and inserting later and some combinations, neither worked. When I open Disk Utility I'm not allowed to do anything on the HD (duh, since I have no permissions). Found it out when I saw a "No Writing" thingie at the bottom left corner when I opened a window in the HD. And of course a clue that I wasn't allowed to move anything over it
A hint as to how I can circumvent this would be great. Or do I have to go back to that friend to reformat the HD. If I do the latter, is there anything in particular I have to watch out for (something less obvious, no answers in the trend of "make sure it's not set as a private disk etc.).
Thankie,
FJ
I tried rebooting, and inserting later and some combinations, neither worked. When I open Disk Utility I'm not allowed to do anything on the HD (duh, since I have no permissions). Found it out when I saw a "No Writing" thingie at the bottom left corner when I opened a window in the HD. And of course a clue that I wasn't allowed to move anything over it

A hint as to how I can circumvent this would be great. Or do I have to go back to that friend to reformat the HD. If I do the latter, is there anything in particular I have to watch out for (something less obvious, no answers in the trend of "make sure it's not set as a private disk etc.).
Thankie,
FJ