read only
Smiles
can not change
any suggestions
John John - MVP
and how are you trying to change this read-only status on the whole
drive? Right click on the drive and then click on Properties and then
take a look at the Security tab to see the permissions in place for the
drive.
John
philo
Good advice
Just wanted to add that some SCSI drives have a write-protect jumper
John John - MVP
Also a good point. Maybe the OP is seeing all his folders as read-only
and as such has erroneously concluded that the drive itself is
read-only, to which I should add that the read-only attribute on folders
is ignored by Windows.
John
Ken Blake, MVP
<smile_i...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have a drive which is read only for some unknown reason
How do you know? What do you see and where do you see it?
> can not change
How have you tried to change it?
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Smiles
Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:11:33 -0400, Smiles
> <smile_i...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a drive which is read only for some unknown reason
>
>
> How do you know? What do you see and where do you see it?
>
>
>> can not change
>
>
> How have you tried to change it?
>
If I open a document, change it and save it gives me a saveas box, when
I save it or replace both options still give me a read only file
I backed up the drive using cobain backup which gives me a f:\g\
g is read only and contains all my files
now f is the backup folder which turned out as read only
when I change the read only flag on g it asks about subfiles and closes
when I change the read only flag on f it asks about subfiles and takes
90 min to change permissions but at the end it still is read only
my emails are not saved because it has read only files
how can I processed now
Smiles
change to system flaged
Smiles
no files copied
I tryed xcopy f:\*.* g:\ /c /f
no files copied
Shenan Stanley
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics/browse_frm/thread/facf31e96a5fce4e/
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Smiles wrote:
> there is a knowlegebase issue noted but no fix I can see other than
> change to system flaged
- What type of drive is this and how is it connected to your machine?
(Memory-based? Disk-based? Internal? External? Removable?) (Network
share? USB drive? Internal IDE? Internal SATA? Firewire?)
- What is the specific name brand, model number and size of the drive in
question?
- What 'knowledgebase' article are you referring to? (KB######?)
Looking at your other posts...
You said, "If I open a document, change it and save it gives me a save as
box, when I save it or replace both options still give me a read only file"
<-- are you saying you *can* save it - but the file becomes/shows as
read-only in the properties or are you saying when you attempt to save it
some message comes up stating you cannot? If the latter - please quote the
message word-for-word here.
- What does Disk Management show for the drive?
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Smiles
one now usb\ide
all are the same state
knowledgebase Q326549
disk management is ok it can see them defrag them
Shenan Stanley
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics/browse_frm/thread/facf31e96a5fce4e/
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Smiles wrote:
> there is a knowlegebase issue noted but no fix I can see other than
> change to system flaged
Shenan Stanley wrote:
> - What type of drive is this and how is it connected to your
> machine? (Memory-based? Disk-based? Internal? External? Removable?)
> (Network share? USB drive? Internal IDE? Internal
> SATA? Firewire?)
> - What is the specific name brand, model number and size of the
> drive in question?
> - What 'knowledgebase' article are you referring to? (KB######?)
>
> Looking at your other posts...
>
> You said, "If I open a document, change it and save it gives me a
> save as box, when I save it or replace both options still give me a
> read only file" <-- are you saying you *can* save it - but the file
> becomes/shows as read-only in the properties or are you saying when
> you attempt to save it some message comes up stating you cannot? If the
> latter - please quote the message word-for-word here.
>
> - What does Disk Management show for the drive?
Smiles wrote:
> Internal ide -3 drives
> one now usb\ide
>
> all are the same state
>
> knowledgebase Q326549
>
> disk management is ok it can see them defrag them
And the rest of the questions? ;-)
- What is the specific name brand, model number and size of the
drive in question?
- You said, "If I open a document, change it and save it gives me a
save as box, when I save it or replace both options still give me a
read only file" <-- are you saying you *can* save it - but the file
becomes/shows as read-only in the properties or are you saying when
you attempt to save it some message comes up stating you cannot?
If the latter - please quote the message word-for-word here.
I was asking about Disk Management to see if how it shows this one drive
that has read-only 'problem' - has the correct size, no empty space, etc?
The KB article is unlikely to be your prblem - because you are speaking of
individual files. The article title says it all...
"You cannot view or change the Read-only or the System attributes of folders
in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, or in Windows Vista"
"... of folders ..."
Smiles
my copy of that drive is a wd205aa
an other copy sits on an old ibm
usb drive is also a wd1600
both folders and files are read only 39gig of data
it shows correct size with 11% empty
can delete and copy files and folders but all new items are read only
i do not get any errors in word excel or notepad creating a document
if i modify and than save i get a saveas box if i choose old file it
asks to over write yes/no
still both are read only
M.I.5�
"Smiles" <smile_i...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a drive which is read only for some unknown reason
> can not change
> any suggestions
It might have helped if you told us what type of drive it was.
If it is a FLASH stick, then the FLASH memory chip has failed (they have a
limited life).
Smiles
only problem I can think of is sid error some files go back 10 years and
three systems
always had full access with admin privilege's and no issues till my c
drive crashed and was replaced now this is second drive can copy but can
not remove read only flag