To change the permissions on your hard drive, just select the drive on your desktop, hit Command-I, which will bring up the "get info" window.
Under the Ownership and Permissions arrow, toggle it down, and select your choice of You Can Read & Write.
I guess I have been lucky, I've been running 5 LaCies for over 3 years and never had any problems.
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