Hard Drive Disk Permissions How to Set Read Write and Ignore Permissions

When a hard drive is mounted in our lab and the user can not write to it you need to check the permissions

Right click on the hard drive icon on the desktop

Choose to "Get Info"

Click on the lock to unlock and you will have to put in 

your 

UN = EID

PW = your EID password

(remember your EID is now admin) so you can set permissions 

Check the box that

Ignores ownership on this volume


Also make sure that "Everyone"

Can Read and Write


Then pull the settings drop down and choose

to "Apply to enclosed items"

That should fix the hard drive read and write problems