how to save any files on existing external hard drive, that I used for Windows PC

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Cannot save any files to External hard drive. Got message "no permission"
 

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How is the drive formatted? If it is NTFS you will need to either backup data and format the drive to HFS+ or use something like this to let the Mac write to that drive.

You can find out how the drive is formatted by selecting the drive and choosing Get Info while in the Finder.
 
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Is it formatted as NTFS or FAT32
 

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