Formatted PC Win XP drive not writable in Mac OS X?

[cerbcsrl]

Hi there folks - I am doing some file archiving and have run across a problem. I have two WD internal/IDE 250 gig drives that I use in USB 2.0 cases.

Drive #1 was formatted on a Mac OS 10. something, and I can read and write on either WinXP/Mac OSX platforms. No problems here!

The second drive (identical drive, identical case), I happened to format using Windows XP administrative tools drive management wizard, and although I can read and write to the drive when accessed throuhg a PC, my Mac OSX system tells me that I don't have permission to access the drive. I tried to change permissions on both computers, but I just couldn't find anything that changed it (I used apple's help, which says that there should be some kind of override switch, which there isn't, and WinXP's properties doesn't have anything that looks like permissions).

Does anyone know what I could do at this point, now that the drive is formatted? Do I just need to always format hard drives on a Mac if they will be used in both systems?

thanks for your help.

Conrad

 

[cerbcsrl]

Sorry if the above is not clear. I should have said that my Mac OSX computer actually can access the drive - it shows up on the desktop and the Mac can READ from it but cannot WRITE to the drive. Writing to the drive is of particular importance to me since I want to be able to use the Mac computer as the one where most of the archiving activity will be done.

thanks.

conrad