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I accidentally set a disk's permissions to No Access and i cant get it back and i cant startup my laptop

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    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
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    When I try to use the internal hard drive as a scratch disk I get this error "unable to set scratch disk- the selected directory is on write protect or non-writable media.  Any ideas on how to fix this.  It only happens in fcp.

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