WD Elements Play and OSX Lion

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I bought my parents the WD Elements Play Media Player since they needed one and it was perfect, easy to use, cheap enough played all the right files etc. However it is formatted out of the box as NTFS, and me running OSX Lion cannot write to NTFS. I have done a bit of reading and it seems I can reformat the drive to another journal (ExFat?) however I am not sure that if I do this it will still retain the software it uses to be a media player or be able to read the files I have written to it. NTFS-3G doesn't run well on 10.7 so that is really the last resort. Do you think I can reformat the drive and still use it as a media player? The suggestion comes from the WD site, they provide step by step instructions on what to do but they sound like they are very general and not specifically for a media player.

Any help would really be appreciated
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exFat will limit your file size, but I think the media player will still work. I had a few media players that I formatted in different partitions and file systems and they worked. I, however, have no experience on the WD Elements.
At the very least, if exFat doesn't work, you should be able to format the drive to NTFS again, right?
 
I've also bought ntfs writing... one mac has paragon, the other the cheaper one which is as good.
 
I downloaded Tuxera last night and it looks like it has worked. It is only a 15 day trial and I think I will download and pay for Paragon once it expires. I am going to have to transfer all my new stuff from another drive onto the WD this weekend. Do you reckon I should fiddle around and create an OSX journaled partition and if it works format the whole thing or would you not mess with it?
 
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