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

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Luke Dalessandro

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.
 
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

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Rick said:
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?
Click to expand...

Rick, thanks for the read-only information. I restarted windows and the
problem went away (of course), but when I was getting the error I was
getting an "Access Denied" error. I don't remember the specifics, but it
was basically, "you may not have persmission to do this, or it may be in
use by another user."

When I shut-down, I got an error that an application wasn't responding,
would I like to force it to shut down, but it didn't list an application
name. Next time it happens I'll try and get the actual error, and the
list of running processes.

My guess is that it has something to do with the Beta ASP.NET 2.0
installation on my machine, as it is a completely clean install with
that being the only strange thing. It is odd that I have only
encountered the access denied error on that second drive though.
 
Hi Luke,

"Access Denied" is an ownership issue, and has nothing to do with attributes
like "read only". If it reoccurs, use the steps here:

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Rick is correct... However... This may have been a process in use error...
Often when processes are running and they have locks on files or folders, an
attempt to delete the folder which contains these files will give the error
that is described... when you attempted the reboot, it attempted to shutdown
the application that was holding these files in use... It responded by
telling hyou that the application was hung... you shut it down via the
dialog, and the system was restarted... At which point, the process did not
auto start and you were able to subsequently gain access to the
folders/files in question...

Just a guess!
 
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