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My Mac will not store data on my wd external hard-drive

I have just purchased the WD (Western Digital) 320GB portable hard drive and connected it to my imac. When I try to move files onto the hard drive i get the message that my file could not be moved because "Elements" cannot be modified. I have not been able to store any data on the hard disk. After plugging in the hard drive via usb, the icon "Elements" does show up on the desktop
When I click on the "elements" icon on my desktop I get 3 files. "autorun", "autorun.inf" and "System Volume Information". When I click on these nothing much happens. Please help me sort out this problem so I can store data on the WD Elements Thanks Ercel Ozser

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Take it back to where you bought it, and get a replacement,
or at least get them to demonstrate that it _does_ work, when connected to a Mac computer (not a Windows computer).

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