I have a Sony XBR850D, I am trying to expand storage on it by using USB drive. I initially chose it as an external drive when formatting. I thought I will use it as backups for Kodi and maybe other stuff. But I am not able to copy anything to that drive because I do not have write permissions. How can I gain that? I tried to go in Kodi and select it as a backup site, but even kodi can not write to it.
Android TV can not write to an external drive. You will not be able to do that unless you format it as expandable storage (and leave it connected all the time).