Get rid of read only

[netsu...@gmail.com]

Hello,

Thank you for this awesome tool! It is possible to create ram disk with write flag. I don't want to be only read only. Can yow show me what to change in the source code?

Thank you! 

[Craig Andera]

Unfortunately, what you are asking for is not possible. Windows shadow
copies must be read only, because if they weren't, and you wrote a
change to a file that has also changed since the copy, you'd have two
conflicting edits and the operating system wouldn't know how to
resolve the conflict.

If you want to write to a file or files, make a copy using ShadowSpawn
to some writeable directory and then edit that.

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[netsu...@gmail.com]

I understand. Thank you very much for your help! :)

[netsu...@gmail.com]

Ok. I try to copy mounted shadow copy via xcopy and then with robocopy. I want to make bootable backup of system drive, so copy all files and folders from mounted ram disk to backup drive, but with xcopy and robocopy tells me Access is denied for some files. If I understand correctly this must not be occuring when I copy files from shadow copy, right? I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I'm usinng this commands:

XCOPY W:\ Z:\ /h/i/c/k/e/r/y/f

ROBOCOPY W:\ Z:\ /R:0 /W:0 /V /MIR /SEC 

Can you tell me is that right way to call xcopy and robocopy? What Access denied occurs on shadow copy?

Thank you very much for your help!

[Craig Andera]

Are you running as administrator? Some of the file permissions may
deny red access to the user you're running as.

But honestly I probably won't be able to help you. I haven't used
Windows for years.

[netsu...@gmail.com]

Yes. I'm running cmd as admin then paste the command in command line. Anyway, thank you for great support! :)