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MacOS Extended External Hard Drive - Read Only

After moving to Mojave, I connected my WD external hard drive, and it says "Read Only". Not sure how to make it back to write enabled. The drive was always formatted as MacOS Extended.

MacBook Air (2018 or later)

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 7:02 PM

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Posted on Dec 18, 2018 10:01 PM

From Disk Utility, try the Repair Disk button. If that button isn't available, the drive may be locked in hardware or about to fail. In that case, take the backup of your data and format the drive.

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MacOS Extended External Hard Drive - Read Only

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