Accessing external HDD by Disk Utility because lacks the proper privileges

"Accessing external HDD by Disk Utility because lacks the proper privileges"

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Unable to Access Drives:

See if there are any Profiles installed on this Mac. Profiles create rules and such to disallow activities such as device access and other privileges. So, see if you have any that you need to remove. I use profiles to block out my iSight Camera, as shown in my User Tip How to Use a Profile to Disable the iSight Camera in macOS 15 Sequoia - Apple Community.

Seeing and Removing Profiles:

1. Open: System Settings
2. Select: General
3. Click: Device Management
4. Click: the - button for anything of suspicion.

Some external drives have built-in firmware locks or are encrypted.

• If the drive came with manufacturer software (like WD or Seagate tools), open it and unlock the drive first.
• Check if it’s formatted with NTFS (Windows formats macOS can’t erase directly without special software). It will only have Read Access. No Write Access even. Unless you have NTFS for Mac installed after purchasing from Paragon. Microsoft NTFS for Mac

hummaussie wrote:

Not the case, all these ssds have been there for several years, I found the solution though, thanks

It is proper etiquette to actually provide the solution which worked for you in order to give back to the community whose assistance you were seeking. It is extremely frustrating to find a thread and someone hints at a solution, but no one knows what it is. Perhaps it will help someone else and it will help contributors who tried to assist you here to better assist the next person.

Do you have adminastrator previliges on the device? That might be stopping it, a great way to test it is if you can run Sudo commands through the terminal.

For overall online safety i recommend you always Blur your name in images, along with Serial Number, adress, and if you wanna be really careful UUIDs.