Cant use external hard disk

[debian]

manuel mizael gonzalez pereira wrote:
> Hi, i have an external hard disk, and i want to put some information 
> on it, but i cant, even i tryed with the comand nautilus and nothig, i 
> still cand write on it, is there another command? thanks
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Can you atleast mount the disk?

ifso, mount it, then the terminal, type:

sudo nautilus

that will run nautilus as root and you should be able to read/write to 
your drive

--cj