External Hard drive problem

HoeJamilton

Geek Trainee
Ok, so I decided to convert my old internal hard drive to an external when I bought a bigger hard drive. The new hard drive is working good, and I can access my external anywhere with USB, so it's all good.

Then i tried to save something to it.

Apparently, I do not have write access ANYWHERE this drive is plugged in, including at my home PC. The jumper was set to have the external be "Master", as per the enclosure's directions. And, as far as I can tell, I have not made the hard drive protected.

Has anyone run into this problem? I am guessing I may need to freshly format it, but I'd rather check for an easier solution before making that big of a move.
 
Formatting shouldn't be too much of a hassle with an external drive as long as your backup whats on there first. I'm not 100% certain on this but it could be that the NTFS file system might stop writing.
 
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