WD External Drive is Read Only?

Hi,

When I connect my WD Drive to my macbook Air, it gets mounted fine, I can open files and copy the data but I'm unable to delete data or move and rename the folders which are on WD Element 1TB Drive, I found out that is because my drive status is Read Only.

I can not format my drive it's full and I don't have any extra drive or any other devices where I can copy the data and format the drive.

so please help me with this guys. );

Regards,

TheHumanBot

MacBook Air, macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Jan 25, 2017 1:11 AM

20 replies

dialabrain

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Jan 25, 2017 3:27 AM in response to TheHumanBot

Then you need one of the two applications I mentioned.

dialabrain

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Jan 25, 2017 3:44 AM in response to TheHumanBot

FWIW, neither can read or write to Linux formatted drives natively.

John Galt

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Jan 25, 2017 8:49 AM in response to TheHumanBot

You do not need to format the drive for NTFS unless it is to be used with Windows PCs.

dialabrain

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Jan 25, 2017 8:52 AM in response to John Galt

FWIW, apparently it was already formatted as NTFS since the OP said it was full and he has no drive to copy the files to.

Csound1

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Jan 25, 2017 9:17 AM in response to dialabrain

That is not a problem, merely a delay while the OP buys an external drive.

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WD External Drive is Read Only?