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1. WHY ARE THE FILES ON MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE READ ONLY DRIVER
2. WHY ARE THE FILES ON MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE READ ONLY PC

Then your drive is a correct format and may be no good. If the name that follows is along the lines of: In the window that pops up there will be an area marked "File System:". If your external drive does show up under "My Computer" or "Computer" then right click on it and select Properties. When you connect your device to the laptop do you get a message that pops up saying device not recognized? Or does the device just not show up at all? Well if it is the first option, and you know its not because of a driver, than it may be due to a format not supported by windows.

WHY ARE THE FILES ON MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE READ ONLY PC

Remember to restart your PC after installing drivers.

WHY ARE THE FILES ON MY EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE READ ONLY DRIVER

In this case uninstalling and reinstalling the latest driver for your device should fix the issue. However if you see an Exclamation Mark next to the device, then you already have a driver installed and there is an error with it. If you are seeing a Question Mark then the device is not getting recognized due to a missing driver. What we are looking for exactly is either a Exclamation Point or Question Mark Icon next to the hardware in question (in this case your external HDD). Once located we will be looking for an icon next to the name. Go ahead and look through the different Categories until you find your External Device. Now that you are in the device manager we can see lots of info about our system and it's all broken down into categories. If you are on Win 7 / XP then after right clicking Computer and Selecting Manage, you will need to navigate to "Device Manager" on the left hand side of the new window that pops on when you clicked Manage. If however you are on Windows 7 or even Win XP still, you can access it by right clicking on "My Computer" or "Computer" and selecting, "Manage". Easiest would be to use your search bar on Win 8 / 10 and just search "Device Manager" without quotes. This can be accessed through a couple ways. To best check this head on into your device manager. So there can be a couple of reasons as to why this happens.įirst and most common is a Driver issue. If you have any questions or are unclear about something I say please just ask. No worries, before you start thinking of having to spend money don't! Often times it is something simple enough so lets just dive in and start troubleshooting.