Changing Permissions on External Drive

Ailes Grise

Ailes Grise

Interstellar Immigration
Hi,

I brought back a 200GB USB 2 External drive from work.
It shows up on my desktop ok. and I can access the files
but somehow I can't copy anything to the drives.
It says I don't have permission. when I "get info" for that drive
it says that I can only read the files and gives me no option
to change anything.

The Drive is in NTFS format and when I checked using Sharepoints,
the owner appears to be root, I can't seem to find a way to change
permissions that will enable me to write to that disk. My comp is a
G5 2.0 DP, 10.3.5

Any help is appreciated
thanks
 
did you try to unlock the volume? Simply open the Info window (apple+i) and you should find a lock next to the owner. Click it and see if it opens. You might need type a password. Hope this will work
 
Ailes Grise said:
Hi,

I brought back a 200GB USB 2 External drive from work.
It shows up on my desktop ok. and I can access the files
but somehow I can't copy anything to the drives.
It says I don't have permission. when I "get info" for that drive
it says that I can only read the files and gives me no option
to change anything.

The Drive is in NTFS format and when I checked using Sharepoints,
the owner appears to be root, I can't seem to find a way to change
permissions that will enable me to write to that disk. My comp is a
G5 2.0 DP, 10.3.5

Any help is appreciated
thanks
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Hi,

I don't think that OS X can write to an NTFS partition; it can only read from it.

Regards,
Marc
 
You'll likely have to reformat it. I had that happen with an external a few months ago. It mounted fine, but I had scads of problem trying to copy files to it. Just hit erase under Disk Utility and all was fine after that.
 
Thanks everyone for the suggestions,

Zammy, I did that apple+i but nothing appears under owners, no locks or anything except "You can only read files"

It seems mslifkin might be right, I played that google game and found
on some sites that writing on NTFS is still limited.

I'd love to reformat Randman, but the ext HD is not mine. looks like I have to do it the long way - copy files to my Xp box and then to the HD from there.( almost got rid of Xp on that machine!)

:( more cross platform headaches
 
Hi all,

The last post to this thread is nearly a year old. I face this problem today. Any progress regarding this "cross platform headache"?
 
Thanks for the update ElDiabloConCaca. Can you recommend a format that I might use to reformat my friends drive such that his WinXP system can still read and write?

Thanks,

Eirik
 
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