Hi, Western Digital seems to have goofy software - this one mounts but I have read only permission and cannot change the permission. Disk Utility and DiskWarrior error out when I attempt to erase. I run OS X 10.7.4 on a 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Imac with 3 GB of RAM What is it with WD and thei…

Wow. Western Digital has pretty bad documentation. This is a very simple solution to the problem of Read Only Permission on Western Digital External HD My Book Essentials on Mac OS X: What did NOT work: Formatting partitioning the drive from Disk Utility or DiskWarrior Installing NTFS drivers f…

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My Book Essentials 3 TB is READ ONLY!

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Joe_S May 27, 2012, 8:17pm 2

If the drive is formatted NTFS for Windows it will be read only on a Mac.

Joe