How do I write to an attached external hard drive?

I have attached a WD 2TB external drive to my new NMH with USB. I can play the movies stored on the drive but I cannot write new movies to that drive.
I always get an error message: "Access denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write protected."
Whenver I try to right click, properties and un-check the read-only box, it always goes back to read only.
Help?

You might want to check out the information in: http://homecommunity.cisco.com/t5/Media-Hub/External-USB-drive-has-only-read-rights/m-p/268505#M815
Looks like the external drive has to be formated as a FAT32.
Alan

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