I tried at home doing all the things mentioned prior in another post such as changing the authority of ownership at home on my Vista, and changing the files so they arent read only (with the tick in the square) but with no success. In other words the computer sees the drive as being smaller than the label on the hard drive claims it to be. Plus it must be the drive settings or something because if at home I add new files, at TAFE it will be the same for the new files. It can be seen therefore that when taking up 1MB of storage space, your computer will use in excess of the SI defined value of 1MB.

This has happened to my old hard drive and also to my new one only recently. When I get to TAFE computers it tells me the files are read only and I cant even save new data on the hard drive. If you’re looking for one, look no further than our. I have never had a problem with this on the Macs before. External hard disk (HDD) enclosures are pretty handy if you want to back up your files while still making sure that your hard drives are safe. I did have a problem with them being read only on my Vista and it wouldnt even allow access for me to re format it, but somehow I managed to sort it out. However, the WD My Passport drive comes with a USB 3.0 interface, which makes the drive writing and reading speed is up to 120MB/S, and in other words, the file transfer speed is greatly improved. Finally, I decided to do a clean install of Windows 10 which involved installing the OS from an external drive. If you have HP External Hard drive - files are all read only and I cant change it then we strongly recommend that you. I have a problem with my external hard drive, I can use it fine on my Vista at home (all that is on my External HD is photos, jpegs and Raws) I can delete, move and do pretty much anything normally at home but it wont let me do anything except open them on TAFE computer's which are Macs. The WD My Passport drive is not an external SSD, so you cannot expect surprising read and write speeds the drive will offer. Accidentally Converted External Hard Drive to 'ESD-USB' Ever since I got my Yoga 3 I have been having numerous problems with Windows 10.

Is my external hard drive read only