(Msg. 17) Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:19 am
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Basicly what I did with my 3 external drives was to go to:
This computer
Locate the drive
Right click - Properties
Security
In the lower right, choose Advanced
Lower Left, choose Edit
Now here was my problem. Having put the files there on one computer
that crashed alot then moving it to my new computer, I had some weird
owerships and inheritatits from the old computer. What I basicly did,
was to remove ALL of the permissions then adding <My user name> and,
System, and Administrator. You can also add Users and Authenticated
Users (look up the names on your main drive that always works).
It took a while for the disk to set the permissions to all
folders/subfolders and so on, but now everything works like a charm.
Could be worth a try.
(Msg. 18) Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:35 pm
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Thanks, Johan, I'll give this a try and see what happens. I hope
something works as this is driving me nuts.
(Msg. 19) Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:14 pm
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YIKES!! I think you might have found the solution, Johan. It took me a
good five hours to reset the security on all my files but I've rebooted
three times now and still no read-only drives. I still want to get a
few more reboots in before I get to optimistic but so far things look
great!!!!
(Msg. 20) Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:11 am
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Now Vista seems to be write protecting the media on whims. I haven't
rebooted in four days and a drive that was fine yesterday is now
write-protected. What a pain in the ass.
MICROSOFT ARE YOU THERE!?!?!?! HELLLLLLLO THIS IS A PROBLEM, PLEASE
FIX IT!
(Msg. 21) Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:25 pm
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Well, so it still writes protects the disc sometimes, but unlike before
I find that now all I need to do is unplug the power so the harddrive
"reboots" and then it works again. It's atleast better than before but
it's still not 100%
Also, the time it writes protects is after and only after a computer
crash. Might infact be the drive itself that writeprotects itself if it
notice a system failure, in that case...thats good news
(Msg. 22) Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 2:12 am
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rumjungle;811312 Wrote:
> I'm getting the same issue with an internal HD that I use for data
> storage. There must be some kind of definitive fix for this.
Same problem here, caused by changing SATA ports....or what is it
something else?!
(Msg. 23) Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:30 am
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Johan ALfort;88148 Wrote:
> ...
> What I basicly did, was to remove ALL of the permissions then adding
> <My user name> and, System, and Administrator. You can also add Users
> and Authenticated Users (look up the names on your main drive that
> always works).
>
> It took a while for the disk to set the permissions to all
> folders/subfolders and so on, but now everything works like a charm.
> Could be worth a try.
>
> PS. Also works after reboot >
I have the same hell of a problem and wanted to try your approach
Johan. But I actually can't because when I try to click "OK" or "Apply"
after removing the old and adding the new permission entries it starts
but immediatelly gets this error:
"An error occurred while applying security information to:
Z:\PATH\TO\SOME\FILE\_\I\THINK\FIRST\ONE
The media is write protected."
So it looks like I have to possibility at all to change my permissions.
Perhaps it works under XP on my Laptop to unset the write-protection.
Or any other suggestions?!
(Msg. 24) Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:50 pm
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I've reinstalled and I've fixed drivers and all so the system is more
stable and so far I haven't had any problems with the disks for months
now.
Ichbinder:
Sorry to say that I don't have any more suggetions. Do you have admin
account and all that? If yes then I don't know what it is. This seems to
be more than one problem and it doesn't seem like anyone out there is
listening to it.
I hope you guys find solutions for the problem. You should talk to the
manufacturers of the harddrives and see if you can get it replaced cause
in my opinion this is not a working harddrive.
Good luck out there, If I stumble upon something, I'll post it here!
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