[MichellePell]

I bought a new Seagate FreeAgent Desk 500Gig external drive today for Black Friday. It is not the one specifically for Mac users, but is supposed to work with Macs as well. I am a photographer and am trying to transfer over my digital photography work files and raw images from my desktop Mac to the hard drive; However, I am unable to create a new file on the drive or put any of my images on it.

I am getting a notice that states that: "The drive cannot be modified."
I looked on Seagate's website and it states that I will need to reformat the drive. It suggests the user 'see answer ID: 2452'; however clicking on that option brings me to a page that doesn't explain anything about how to do this or even mentions anything about this problem.

I got a great deal on it and would really like to be able to use it soon.
Any idea on how to fix this?
I'd appreciate your thoroughness as I am not extremely knowledgeable about this subject.
Thank you,
MP