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Products => Storage => : agrohman October 07, 2008, 12:20:36 PM

: USB Drive appears as Read Only
: agrohman October 07, 2008, 12:20:36 PM
   

I attached a 250 GB External HDD to a USB port of my LinkStations Pro Duo (LS-W1.0TG/R1-V3), and the automatically created share drive 'usbdrive1' is always Read Only.  I have tried changing the settings between Read-Only and Read-Write, but it's always Read Only from Windows XP.

 

How can I make it writable?

: Re: USB Drive appears as Read Only
: Edin October 07, 2008, 01:55:37 PM
   

According to some notes I red, the drive is read-only if it is formated to NTFS.  To make it read/write, you need to format external drive to XFS or EXT3.

 

http://www.buffalotech.com/knowledgebase/users/kb.php?id=10123&category_id=8&sid2=

Message Edited by Edin on 10-07-2008 03:55 PM