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Windows did a disk check and now it's read only

Asked by: jodyfaison

I has having a little trouble with a  drive and found it wasn't secured into mobo, and on a boot widows did a disk check and now I can't write to the disk.
Any thoughts on how to change that back to normal settings?
thanks

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Answers

 

by: noxchoPosted on 2009-10-29 at 02:41:35ID: 25691851

Take ownership of the drive via My Computer - right click on drive - properties - security tab.
If it is not available there you would need you would need to edit file options:
1. Log in as an administrator
2. in my computer, choose folder options, click on the view tab, scroll right to the bottom of the 'advanced settings' section and ensure 'user simple file sharing (recommended)' is deselected. OK it.
3. right click on the drive that you want to take ownership of (in my computer) and choose properties
4. click on the 'security' tab
5. click the 'advanced' button
6. click the 'Owner' tab
7. under 'change owner to:' select your username
8. check the 'replace owner on subcontainers and objects'
9. click Apply (may take some time)
10. click on the 'Permissions' tab
11. click the 'add' button
12. type 'everyone' for all users to be able to access the drive. Type your user name just for yourself. OK it.
13. click the 'full control' checkbox under 'allow.' OK it.
14. check the 'replace permission entries on all child objects...' checkbox
15. OK it (result may take some time)
16. OK the last window

Since then you should be able to read\]write the drive.

 

by: jodyfaisonPosted on 2009-10-29 at 02:46:05ID: 25691875

Thank you, I'm just off to bed, but I'll give it a shot in AM.

 

by: noxchoPosted on 2009-10-29 at 03:40:07ID: 25692171

Good night then =)

 

by: jodyfaisonPosted on 2009-10-29 at 07:55:52ID: 25694351

thanks,
well no luck. It won't let me change ownership on some recycle bin items. (? - I tried emptying the recycle bin but it didn't help) There's also an old AVG quarantine bin that seems locked up.
When it tried to extend the ownership and balked at these files, I keep hitting ignore, maybe 40 times. I don't know if I had persisted if it would have gotten into my data and changed ownership there.

 

by: noxchoPosted on 2009-10-29 at 07:57:52ID: 25694367

run CHKDSK one more time. It is known data corruptor so if it did corrupt anything then it is time for it to repair that.

 

by: jodyfaisonPosted on 2009-10-29 at 08:03:37ID: 25694445

oh ok, AVG is a known data corrupter?

 

by: noxchoPosted on 2009-10-29 at 08:06:47ID: 25694482

No. Microsoft CHKDSK.

 

by: jodyfaisonPosted on 2009-10-29 at 20:23:40ID: 25700012

Hmm, explorer won't let me run disk check, says drive is write protected that's with option to fix errors togged either way.
I'm looking through 3rd party disk toll, Acronis may have something. ?

 

by: noxchoPosted on 2009-10-30 at 05:06:53ID: 25702086

For check? I doubt. Try to connect this drive to another system if you have any and there take ownership of the drive.
Also I would copy out data of the drive and reformat it.

 

by: jodyfaisonPosted on 2009-10-30 at 08:39:02ID: 25704020

Ok, will do

 

by: jodyfaisonPosted on 2009-11-13 at 14:37:38ID: 25818219

Sorry for delay, had some heavy school finals to deal with....
but last night I installed a new drive to copy this problem one onto, had some problems of course,
reset the cmos. Then on boot, it went into chk disk for the problem drive and upon opening windows, then issue was resolved no more write only...
so thanks!

 

by: jodyfaisonPosted on 2009-11-13 at 14:39:49ID: 31647003

thanks for your patience..

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