Windows 10: Can't access my External HDD on Windows But Ubuntu has no problems r/w on the same hdd !

Hello Just few hours ago i stumbled across a problem when accessing my External HDD " it was working fine this morning" I tried connecting it on a desktop computer and i got the same error " ... The drive is not accessible " I got dual boot on my internal SSD windows + Ubuntu . So i rebooted to Ubuntu to see if there's something wrong i was surprised to see that i can R/W anything from/to the hdd. So i went back to windows . And i couldn't access the drive again. I used Aiomi partition tool to remove the partition and recover it using Active ® Recovery software . Which worked fine. I tried to access the drive again and it didn't work then rebooted to Ubuntu and i was able to access my drive ! What's going on ! My mind is blown. Ps : it's not about filesystem format , because it's been 6 months since i formatted it to NTFS, besides it was working fine this morning on my 2 laptops and 1 desktop PC.

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External HDD Access Problem

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Access to files on external HDD

I recently bought a new Windows 10 computer. I already have an external HDD with my photos on. To migrate my other data (e.g. Office docs etc) from the C: drive on my old XP computer I copied the relevant folders to the external HDD. I intend to copy this
data to an internal HDD on my new computer, but before doing so I am deleting files that I no longer require. I am signed in with an administrator account on my new computer, but every time I try to delete or move a file or folder on the external HDD, a dialog
box pops up asking for administrator permission. Clicking 'Yes' enables me to delete or move the file/folder, but this is clearly laborious. Inspecting the properties of files/folders on the external HDD, I see that every file and folder has a blue/yellow
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Is there a way that that I can simply update the permissions on all files/folders on the external HDD to give full access to my administrator account, so that I can move/delete files without needing to give permission every time.

Note - At the end of the day I want to move the Office docs etc to an internal HDD on my new computer but leave the photos on the external HDD. But I want my administrator account to have full access to both types of file.