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Hi all,
Upgraded from xp to vista about a month ago.
Have a HDD I used under xp, not formatted when I upgraded as only used for general file storage.
I can copy thing to and from it fine, but when I come to install a game to it, or set my documents (which are on it) as the place to download photos from my camera too, it suddenly decides thats not allowed.
I am running an administrator account,
I have ensured that all accounts and user accounts have full rights,
I have tried with the ownership of the harddrive set to both my username, and members of the administrators group as a whole,
I have tried the run command: "attrib /s -r E:\*.*" both in normal vista and in safe mode, and both of the above with the UAC enabled and disabled.
It seems no matter what I try, all files are marked as read only.
So today I thought well lets try copying everything off it, formatting it under vista and copying things back.
I try to format and apparently the disk is write protected too!
What do I do so I can install stuff to my damn hard drive!
Upgraded from xp to vista about a month ago.
Have a HDD I used under xp, not formatted when I upgraded as only used for general file storage.
I can copy thing to and from it fine, but when I come to install a game to it, or set my documents (which are on it) as the place to download photos from my camera too, it suddenly decides thats not allowed.
I am running an administrator account,
I have ensured that all accounts and user accounts have full rights,
I have tried with the ownership of the harddrive set to both my username, and members of the administrators group as a whole,
I have tried the run command: "attrib /s -r E:\*.*" both in normal vista and in safe mode, and both of the above with the UAC enabled and disabled.
It seems no matter what I try, all files are marked as read only.
So today I thought well lets try copying everything off it, formatting it under vista and copying things back.
I try to format and apparently the disk is write protected too!
What do I do so I can install stuff to my damn hard drive!