Don't have Permission to Write to my Own External Hard Drives

So this is a fun one... c8

I hadn't plugged in any of my external drives for a while... and when I did last night, I found that I no longer had permission to write to any of the hard drives I owned. (I tried four of them with no avail.)

• Within the permissions tab, I am listed as the owner, who can read and write to them.
• "Ignore Ownership on this Volume" is selected
• If I try and let "everyone" read and write, it says I do not have permission to do that
• All drives are formatted to Mac OS Journaled
• Dragging and dropping any object to any of these external drives results in an ex'd out arrow pointer
• I have run First Aid on all drives in Disc Utility, and my Macintosh HD and they all appear fine and fully functional
• I have tried plugging the drives directly to the Mac Mini disregarding USB hubs, and it still does not work
• I have re-installed Mac OS Monterey 12.2.1 and it still does not allow me to change the device permissions
• If I restart the computer, the drives show up properly for a few seconds (showing available space), but Finder finishes loading, and my permissions are once again removed.
• The helpful "Repair Disc Permissions" in Disk Utility appears to be gone. Any idea how to get this back?

Thanks so much!