Can mount external USB drive but cannot read or write to it

[Jonathan D. Armendariz]

Hello,

I have a bit of an issue. I have a small USB drive that I've managed to 
reformat using GParted in EXT3. The drive will mount on my desktop just 
fine and will let me click open the icon for my drive but that's where 
it stops. I've been completely unable to copy files to it or even copy 
the "lost+found" icon from it. The error I get copying from it is that I 
do not have permissions to read it and copying to it I get something 
like permission denied. I have been able to take the drive to a Windows 
PC and I can "see" the drive in the disk management console as well as 
the device manager. I've also tried to reformat the drive but I get the 
same results. Perhaps I'm missing something here? Any help in this 
matter would be greatly appreciated! Thank you kindly.

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