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Solve : external HDD turns "read only"?

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OS is LinuxMint13-KDE.
I regularly make BACK ups with Grsync.
I have an external HDD (1TB and just over a year old) that suddenly refuses to cooperate; when using it as destination to back up to, it says about every folder that it is "read only".
I discussed it on the Grsync-forum and it appears to be a disk problem - not a grsync flaw.

How can I check what exactly the problem is with the HDD?

Not familiar with the O/S however researching on your behalf uncovered this site where the problem was successfully resolved by method provided therein. Hopefully this too will be your result.Good luck,truenorth
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=104411 Quote from: truenorth on January 01, 2013, 01:44:11 PM

Not familiar with the O/S however researching on your behalf uncovered this site where the problem was successfully resolved by method provided therein. Hopefully this too will be your result.Good luck,truenorth
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=104411
That is about an NTFS whilst MINE is FAT32.
But it may give me some clues to INVESTIGATE further, thanks very much; I'm GLAD I've got a starting point  I found it; in Gparted I had to "Check" the unmounted partition.
(I saw the idea in an Ubuntu forum http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1556070) Well done,truenorth


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