The warning is alerting if you have to enable the method of NTFS experiment support in macOS. In the second step, you have to highlight the external hard drive read-only and then click to the ‘first aid’ option which is on the top center on your Mac after that you have to click on the ‘Run’. In the first step, you have to click on the disk utility and head to the application utilizes or you can also tap the space + command option and also type disc utility. On your external hard drive, there are formatting errors that make the read-only devices and can also utilize the disc to repair and check the errors of the external storage device. In the third method, you have to fix this problem by repairing and checking the hard drive errors. In the third step, you have to check and ignore ownership on the volume. Now in the second step, you have to expand the permission and sharing section after that click on the lock to authenticate option.

In the first step, you have to click the external hard drive which is on the right side on your Mac and then you have to select the get info option. Then you have to choose to ignore the permission to solve the read-only external hard drive problem on your Mac and can also be sure that the problem can only be caused by the setting of permission. The second method we used to fix the external hard drive being read-only on your Mac is ignoring the permission. In the third step, you have to click the recovery button and can scan the result by selecting the files so you have to get back all the data on your device.

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