Second hard drive read-only

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Jonathan Ciabotti - 30 Mar 2005 16:24 GMT

Hello all.

About six months ago, I purchased and installed a 250GB hard drive in my
Dell Dimension desktop. I am running XP Pro. After I did the
installation, I installed XP into the new drive and began using my old
60GB drive as a backup drive. Everything went smoothly, and I have been
using both drives since.

A couple of weeks ago I decided to to a clean install of XP. I
installed the OS onto the same drive, and everything appeared to work
fine. Unfortunately, My old (backup) drive is now acting as if it is
read-only. I can access all of the data on the drive, but cannot delete
any files, copy them to another location, or save anything to the drive.
I have checked all of the security permissions and I am listed as the
owner of the drive along with all of its contents.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Jonathan

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namniar - 31 Mar 2005 00:11 GMT

This may not be the problem, but see for yourself.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

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Jonathan Ciabotti - 31 Mar 2005 01:19 GMT

Thanks, but I've tried all of that. I am indeed the owner of every file
on the drive.

Anyone else?

> This may not be the problem, but see for yourself.
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
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>>Jonathan

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