Second hard drive read-only

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

r.

"Jonathan Ciabotti" <jciabotti@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Ewz2e.12559$ZB6.6207@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...
> 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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Thanks, but I've tried all of that. I am indeed the owner of every file
on the drive.

Anyone else?



namniar wrote:
> This may not be the problem, but see for yourself.
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421
>
> r.
>
> "Jonathan Ciabotti" <jciabotti@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:Ewz2e.12559$ZB6.6207@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...
>
>>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
>
>
>