Re: Second, data hard drive "read-only" problems.

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From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:32:53 -0500

Hi Luke,

"Read only" as an attribute is ignored on folders by Windows XP. It only
applies to files. You cannot uncheck or remove it on folders, and you will
be wasting your time trying to. What happens when you try to rename or
delete folders/files? Is there an error message? If so, what does it say -
specifically? 

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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"Luke Dalessandro" <usenet@luked.net> wrote in message 
news:jB_xd.79$VF4.68@news01.roc.ny...
> After reinstalling windows xp (prof) one to many time, I decided that I 
> was sick of wasting DVDs to back up my 30+ GB of music. This time I split 
> my RAID into two seperate drives with the intent of using one as the 
> system drive, and the second as a data drive.\
>
> Everything worked fine. I now have a two-drive system, with the second 
> specifically dedicated to non-application items. The problem that I have 
> been having is that Windows insists on flagging everything in the second 
> "data" drive as "read-only."
>
> No matter what I do, I can't delete or rename folders/files on that second 
> drive. I am both an administrator, and an owner of the entire drive. I 
> can't "un-check" the read only box, and apply it to all subfolders, but 
> the setting doesn't "take." The next time I open the properties box, it is 
> read-only again.
>
> A further problem is that, while I can set up folder on this second drive 
> to run as IIS virtual directories, I can't run any ASP.NET applications 
> using them. I imagine that the problems are related.
>
> Any advice would be great. Thanks in advance.

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