Seagate Drive as Read Only

Hi I was using my External Seagate 3 TB Hard Drive on a Mac Mini that I just Borrowed from a friend and I just bought my Mac Pro now when I use this Hard Drive in the Mac Pro seems to be Read Only but if I conect it back into th Mac Mini appears as Write and Read, how can I change that????

maybe the mini has NTFS driver from someone like Paragon and the Seagate drive and any NTFS volume would be read-only normally unless you use 3rd party driver.
Paragon updated their NTFS to v. 11 to support Mavericks and better support 10.6.8 and up.

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