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Paen9k

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Recently wiped my PC and I am trying to download some games from steam onto my HDD since my SDD it asks me to make a Steam library folder on the drive and will not let me due to it being in read only. I have been looking around at a few suggestions none of them seem to work. I would appreciate any ideas.

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I think I figured it out basically I manually created a steam library folder in the drive itself, and it it letting me download things onto that. Before it wanted to make the folder manually.
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Hi there Paen9k,

You can really write anything on the drive right?
What is your OS?

I believe you can first try to take ownership and grant permissions afterwards:h ttp://preyerplanning.com/take-ownership-of-entire-hard-drive-in-windows-7.pdf

It's a Win 7 tutorial. Yet, for other Wins, the steps should be similar.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD :)
 
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Paen9k

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it give me a list of 30 or so possible owners in this menu, which one do I chose? I selected the one with my name for step one and then clicked apply, I have it full controls and permissions and such still showing as read only.
 
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Paen9k

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I think I figured it out basically I manually created a steam library folder in the drive itself, and it it letting me download things onto that. Before it wanted to make the folder manually.
 
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