Re: Hard Drive is Write Protected?
- From: IrisedParhelion <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:26:51 -0500
Hi Frank,
It seems that there are a number of potential read-only features. To
name a few:
1. NTFS permission for the file only allows read access
2. Share permission only allows read access
3. File attribute is read-only
4. Volume attribute is read-only
5. Media is write protected
*Read-only tickboxes for folders*
Now, you say that you have installed Windows Vista x64 onto a single
disk, and then started windows. I note that you specifically state that
the "-Read-only block [is] filled in (not check boxed)-", and I have to
admit that I am not entirely sure what you mean by that.
Do you mean that in Windows Explorer, for a folder, the Properties |
General tab has a Read-only checkbox in the Attributes section and that
checkbox has a grey tick in it? Although thinking about it, if you are
using the default windows vista theme rather than the Windows Classic
theme, I think this appears as a coloured square rather than a tick.
If so, it may be worth noting that these "read-only" check boxes on
folders are often shown with a greyed out tick (or other indicator
depending on the theme). As far as I can tell, such ticks indicate
nothing except that the folder is not considered to have a read-only
attribute.
If you set the read-only checkbox to a a black tick and click Apply
this means all files will appear as read-only within the folder, while
setting it to no tick and clicking Apply sets all the files to be not
read-only. However, in either case, upon reopening the Properties |
General of the folder, a grey tick (or whatever) will again be shown in
the read-only field. I guess that the way to look at this is that the
"read-only" referred to on the dialogue is a file attribute rather than
a "folder" attribute (and we will ignore the fact that folders are files
in a particular format).
*Diskpart and Volumes*
You refer to a read-only temp volume, but I suspect you are actually
referring to the folder defined by the %TEMP% evironment variable,
rather than to a seperate hard disk partition. Hard disk partitions, or
logical volumes within an extended partition (assuming a Master Boot
Record formatted hard drive) can also have a read-only attribute that
can then be controlled by diskpart.
However, the fact that windows has actually allowed you to login and
check attributes in windows explorer would suggest that writing to disk
has been possible during the startup of windows, at least on the
partition\volume that contains windows. If it wasn't possible to write
to disk then my experience suggests a Blue Screen or halted system would
usually result fairly swiftly.
*Driver based RAID*
That does not rule out the possibility that you have, or have had a
driver based RIAD issue. I do note that XFX create motherboards using
the Nvidia nForce chipset (v5, 6, 7), and these have a driver based RAID
solution. I have no evidence either way but I could see the possibility
that they -may- not be immune to "-a conflict with 3rd party drivers-"
issue, in a similar way to what I suspect may have occured with the
ICH9R chipset on my machine.
However, in that scenario, either the machine would not boot at all, or
I received "Media is Write-Protected" messages. Are you recieving these?
Thanks
IrisedParhelion
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