Problem with USB External HDD

[newel]

Mounts and opens and can close USB external HDD (formatted ext3) without any problem, but cannot write to drive. Cannot change permissions from Properties dialog box on drive.

Any help would be much appreciated

[Snowhog]

Re: Problem with USB External HDD

With the drive connected, open a console and type the following:

sudo fdisk -l

copy and paste the output.

cat /etc/mtab

copy and paste the output.

cat /etc/fstab

copy and paste the output.