Administrative rights to external hard drive when using Parallels

I have installed Parallels to run an embroidery software (Floriani) on my MacBook Air. Both Parallels and the Floriani are running fine and I can see my windows formatted external hard drive when in Floriani and can bring in files from it. But when I try to save a redesigned embroidery file to the external hard drive it tells me I can not because I do not have administrative rights. I have tried to also tried to copy embroidery files downloaded from the internet to my Macbook and get the same message. Since I am the administrator (and only user) of this laptop, how can I get access to the hard drive. I tried following the all the suggestions in the Help Center for setting permission but even though I can set the drive as a "shared" file I cannot see the "lock'" icon referred to and in the "Sharing and Permissions" it still says I can only read. I was told this would be simple???

It is coming from a Windows program (Floriani) AND my Mac/Finder. From Floriani (Windows program) when I try to save a file to the external hard drive. And when I try to copy a file from my Mac hard drive to the external hard drive, it just refuses to do it. I get a "bonk" sound. So I tried highlighting the external drive in finder, went to "file" then "get info" and it says this is a read only "file"....although it is a hard drive, not a file. So I tried same with folders on the hard drive. Same thing.

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Thank's for your reply.
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I am very new to Mac and might did something stupid. I have one small portable hard drive that I keep everything in it as my backup. All Photos, music, files, etc, now are gone because I was enable this hard drive to be the Time Machine backup.
Mac did tell me that the drive is not compatible and when I selected this drive, Time Machine asked to format it. Of course, I said no.
The structure of folders in the drive looks perfect to me but the files are gone (except only few small files)
Can someone help me restore my backup please? :'(
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HI,
Many small drives you buy can be formated in a variety of ways that are not Time Machine Friendly. For example, the Western Digital Passport, a very nice small drive, is usually in the FAT(32) format. To use such a drive you only need reformat it for Time machine (really for the Intel Mac).
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dwgar1322 wrote:
I have just started using WD external hard drives, I use it to save my movies and music on. On more than one occasion, when I connect it to my MacBook it erases everything I had save on the hard drive. Can someone please help me with this problem? I am super tired of having to put all of my movies and music on the hard drive just to have it erased again. The products I am using are WD 4TB My Book and 2 TB My Passport external hard drives. When it happens, there is always an icon that reads, EFI, along with the My Book icon. Thank you for your assisstance.
Yes, you have WD software installed REMOVE IT !!
WD has warned its customers about their huge mistake that their software doesnt work on Mavericks and causes data loss.
(also dont use WD drives anymore)
Read all about it here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5475136?start=255&tstart=0
See their website on removing the destructive WD software here:
http://community.wd.com/t5/External-Drives-for-Mac/External-Drives-for-Mac-Exper iencing-Data-Loss-with-Maverick-OS/td-p/613775
Western Digital External Hard Drives Experiencing Data Loss On OS X Mavericks
http://www.cultofmac.com/252826/western-digital-external-hard-drives-experiencin g-data-loss-on-os-x-mavericks/

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1. Quit iTunes
2. Drag the iTunes folder from your internal hd - located in ~/Music folder - to your external hd. DO NOT delete the original one from your internal hd... yet!
3. When the transfer is complete, press and hold the Option(alt) key and fire up iTunes.
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More info:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
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http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive

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