External harddrive can only read, can't write to the drive. Do i have to format?

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I have a USB 2.0 external 120 gig hard drive. How do i gain read AND write access to the drive?

Do i have to format it, because it's currently NFTS.

Help please, and thanks in advance
Bryson
 
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If the drive is mounted, check the permissions of the drive. You said that it is nfts, if this is a network drive, check to see if the drive is read/writable from the server.
 

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