Remounting 'No Access" external drive.

Hi All,
Ok I did a silly thing fooling around with an external drive trying to make it more secure. I selected the drive and went 'Get Info' and changed the tab to 'No Access'. I assumed whenever I clicked on the drive it would ask me for my admin password to get in. But instead after removing it and plugging it back in it won't mount. I assume because there is no access. Is the a terminal trick I can use to find the drive and switch permissions back to 'Read & Write'

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