Change Permissions on NTFS Formatted Router HDD

[dizzo]

I have an external HDD attached to my router via USB. It's formatted as NTFS and auto-mounts to my raspberry pi. I use the pi as a plex server but right now I can't have the pi optimize anything because it cannot write to the drive. From what I can tell its something to do with the permissions but I can't figure out how to give the pi write permissions on the drive. How can I do that?

Note:

I cannot reformat the drive to ext4 because I need windows to be able to read it.

Is there a way to edit the permissions so that the Pi has full read/write authority?

[Andyroo]

How do you mount it on the Pi?

If you use fstab you can try something along these lines:

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sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o uid=pi,gid=pi /router/device /media/mountpoint/

- can you post the mount details here and let us know what OS you are running?