Time Machine External drive and data only [no OSX on it] partition both

are locked. I don't know what happened but think I might have done a Get Info and did an apply to enclosed = but if so, I was expanding access at the time to all readwrite and not restricting.
In any event, my TimeMachine external is now locked = even using Administrator login I can't open it. And my data partition which is separate from startup partition with OSX is also now locked.
I saw the following discussion tip but thought I would check lst - how do I handle this? If OSX is not on the data partition, fine and I'll follow those instructions but what about Time Machine which does have OSX somewhere on it, I assume.
I'm still running pre-SnowL. on this machine.
<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2087835>

No - I was scared to do so tile I knew for sure that I could apply the suggestion ref the OSX TimeMachien drive and the nonOSX data partition. I wanted to be really sure.
"Locked" means there's a little lock in the lower L hand corner of the icon and there is no checkbox for locking and the privileges are set to Custom and I can't get them to be changed to ReadWrite or whatever.
Before I jump into the terminal, just want to be very sure! Thanks much.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5096
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