How to use my hdd from windows on linux without a format?

[jrichard326]

That sounds like a permissions issue. Does your user have read/write/execute permissions on the newly formatted drive? Take a look here:

Permissions for external drive

I just noticed I don’t have privileges to my external ssd it says only root can make changes, I wanted to make a folder and the create new option is grayed out… how do I change it so that I can use it without being root? I’m surprised I can’t make changes since I used timeshift on it a few days ago (maybe timeshift uses root idk I’m not smart)