You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!

When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.

Looks like no one’s replied in a while. To start the conversation again, simply ask a new question.

Level 1

8 points

Making an external drive Read-Writeable

Hi,

I recently had to rebuild / reinstall my Mac after an upgrade to Big Sur failed and left the disk corrupt.

I reinstalled the OS and recreated all the settings on the OS including recreating the main login account on the OS.

I used to have an external drive attached (mounted as NTFS) which stores all my photos and documents.

That drive is re-mounted as before but it's Read-only and I can't make it writeable despite the permissions seeming to show that it is.

Any ideas please

iMac 27″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Nov 22, 2021 10:29 PM

Top-ranking reply

Level 6

16,649 points

Posted on Nov 23, 2021 1:09 AM

By default NTFS is read-only (similar cross-platform exFAT is read-write). You need 3rd party software to make NTFS read-write.

View in context

Similar questions