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• Disk is read only-no matter what I do...

  I have a 2 TB AV disc which worked fine - until this week.  All of a sudden if I try to write to the disk, I get a message saying the disk is write-protected.  Check the drive, all files seem to be marked read-only.  When I change, they return immediately to be read-only.  I am an administrator and I have all permissions.  This happened right after that I ran a disk defragmentation program, but support for the program swear their software is not and cannot change the attributes of any sort, not to mention all the files in each folder on the entire disc.  Any help and thoughts appreciated - it's very frustrating!

  The read-only attribute is not applicable to folders in Windows Vista. So tried to change the read-only attribute how you do doesn't help. Despite tech that said support defragmentation program, it is obvious that defragment the external hard drive has a problem. There is no reason for you to defragment an external hard drive holding nothing but the data anyway.

  Try to take possession of the disc.

  To take ownership of a folder (or drive):

  1 right click on the file (or the disc) you want to take control and then click Properties.
  2. click on the Security tab, click Advanced, and then click the owner tab.
  3. click on modify. Need administrator permission if you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
  4. click on the name of the person you want to give to the property.
  5. If you want this person to be the owner of the files and subfolders in this folder, select the Replace owner of subcontainers and objects to check.
  6. click on OK

  If you do not see the Security tab, then switch Mode without failure.

  Alternatively, you can take possession of the car from the command line. Start an elevated command prompt.

  Start Orb > Search box > type: cmd
  When cmd appears in the above results, right-click and choose "Run as Administrator". Provide the password/OK to the UAC prompt and you will now have an elevated command prompt.

  For files or directories or disks (will perform action recursively):

  takeown /f directory_name /r /d [Enter]
  ICACLS nom_repertoire/grant administrators: F/t [Enter]

  or

  takeown /f /r d:\ dy [Enter] (where d:\ is the correct letter of the destination drive)

  Replace your username for administrators in the top line. MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - don't panic!

• External hard drive says its read-only and wont allow any changes

  My IQ505a has an attached external USB drive which is a drive external drive USB Western Digital 3200JS, and for a reason that I am unable to make changes to the data on the disk because the system apparently marked the entire disk in "read-only" mode.

  I put my account as an administrator and belong to the Group of Directors with all the usual permissions, except that I'm unable to disabled marking read-only on this drive.

  I also tried to connect and make these changes with the administrator account, but nothing helped.

  This problem is only with the external drive and not on the embedded player.

  Any help would be most appreciated ith this issue frustrating.

  mclwlg

  NZ

  Concerning
  mclwlg - NZ

  Get on the Internet and found many others with external drives, Vista and this issue.

  Found this fix (solution?):

  Go to the computer, do a right-click on the icon of the drive, properties, tools, check now. Uncheck the two boxes and click OK.

• Error: "CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode" when you try to run it on the E: drive.

  Original title: CHKDSK does not work on my Windows 7 laptop

  I'm trying to run a CHKDSK on my external Hard Drive E: but everytime I try to CHKDSK E: in the shell, all I get is

  "This type of file system is NTFS.
  Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode. »
  (That's all I get, nothing in between)
  I tried to make the Tools section of error checking, but it does not work there either...
  If this is a problem with the operating system, I don't have a Windows 7 disc because my laptop came with it pre-installed
  So, what should I do?

  Hello Rayzorexe,

  Thanks for the response back.  You are able to start your computer and get the recovery options?  From there, you can run "Command Prompt" and I want to know if you are able to run Chkdsk from there successfully.

  Are you the same response from the commands below:

  Type 'chkdsk e:' in the command prompt. Press 'Enter' to run the utility to check the disk in read-only mode. He locates errors but does not fix the

  Enter 'chkdsk e:/f' in the command prompt. Press 'Enter' to run the disk check and correct errors without analyzing bad sectors.
  

  Type 'chkdsk e:/r' in the command prompt, press 'Enter' to do a thorough analysis of the sectors and files and repair any problems found.
  

  Recovery options:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/what-are-the-system-recovery-options-in-Windows-7

• CD/dvd drive read only disks not vain iv tried everthing I can think of an infusion iv, any help appreciated, thanks lee.

  CD/dvd drive read only disks not vain iv tried everthing I can think of an infusion iv, any help appreciated, thanks lee.

  Hi leejarvis,.

  ·         What version of the operating system is installed on the computer?

  ·         What is the brand and model of the computer?

  ·         Did you do changes on the computer before the show?

  ·         You get the error message?

  ·         Have what troubleshooting measures you tried?

  Follow the steps in the article.

  Your CD or DVD drive is missing or is not recognized by Windows or other programs

• I restored a file on a hard disk newly installed using system MS Backup tool and now it is "read only".

  original title: "read only".

  I restored a file on a hard disk newly installed using system MS Backup tool and now it is "read only".  Anyone has a solution.  I use XP Professional sp3.  Thank you.

  Right click on the file > properties > uncheck Read only > apply > OK.

• Hard locked read-only disk

  Ive had this problem once before. I turned on my PC yesterday and my WD 500 GB hard drive (number 3) was not recognized. Then I did a reboot and the car has shown once again, HOWEVER, the reader has the read-only flag in DiskPart and disk attrib commands using clear readonly with the right selected disk does not work. DiskPart groaned just could not clear the attribute.

  Any suggestions are welcome & Im ready to try anything. I doubt that it is a driver problem or a hardware problem, such that it worked very well.

  All the tests in Ubuntu 10.04 (my second os) came good and I can write, so Windows 7 has done something, don't know what.

  See you soon,.

  Conor M

  Information system

  ASUS P5N - D
  Intel Pentium 4 3.4 GHz
  2 GB of Ram
  Seagate Barracuda 80 GB IDE [system drive]
  Samsung 80 GB SATA
  WD Caviar Blue 500 GB SATA [the player]

  Right, I stumbled upon a fix! (finally)

  I hope this helps others as it has helped me.

  Open the properties of the drive and goto the tab drivers

  Uninstall the driver

  Restart your PC

  When it starts again, open a session and I must say that the device has been installed successfully.

  Restart again (if windows doesn't tell you)

  Now its works perfectly.

  Thanks for your help Amrita

• vSphere 5 - images of floppy disks (read-only)?

  I'm trying some config files around shuttle via floppy drive because we have not allowed our client to vpshere copy and paste.

  I used the vsphere client to create an image of diskette on the local data store.

  I mounted the disk.

  When I access it through windows server 2008 r2, he invites me to format and fails.

  I tried several format options and cannot operate. floppy images are read-only?

  I'm doing something wrong?

  Thank you

  GD

  Hmmm really don't know whether or not it creates. Can you also try to upload an image with the content and try to open it? Like this: http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp (for Win XP/2000 SCSI driver)

• Read only the virtual disk?

  Hello-

  I have Vmware Server 2 x86_64 installed on my Hardy Heron Ubuntu 8.04.2 Server x86_64 and it seems to work very well.  I have created a virtual machine for Slackware 12.2 and put the DVD iso, Slackware in the right directory.  The virtual machine starts the DVD fine and I started the Slackware Setup.  However, when I went to set up the hard drive with cfdisk (part of the standard installation process Slackware) I noticed two things:

  1. the drive has been turned ReadOnly, so that I could not score; and

  2. I created a virtual disk of 11 GB, but in cfdisk he only appear only 4.7 GB.

  What I am doing wrong?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks in advance.

  Well, I'm just guessing because I haven't worked on the software you're talking--can be the partition its display corresponds to the DVD player itself as the DVD is normally read-only and the size of the disc is 4.7 GB. .. You can check it out please.

  Points of reward if you find useful response

• Error: "CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode" while trying to perform the disk check

  : Title real: my backup is suddenly not recognized in Windows 7

  A backup I use regularly is currently not recognized - I went through several pages of suggestions without deleting the instructions to format the drive. I did chkd sk/p/r suggestions with this result:

  Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

  Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

  
  

  F: C:\Windows\System32>CHKDSK

  The type of the file system is NTFS.

  Volume label is Micron disc for backup.

  
  

  CAVEAT! F parameter not specified.

  Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

  
  

  CHKDSK checks the files (step 1 of 3)...

  11520 file records processed.

  Finished files checking.

  11 big folder files.

  0 incorrect file records processed.

  0 EA records processed.

  0 analysis of the cases handled.

  CHKDSK is checking the index (step 2 of 3)...

  53 percent. (12004 index entries processed 11514)

  Error detected in the $I30 for 5 file index.

  Error detected in the $I30 for 5 file index.

  12004 index entries processed.

  Index verification completed.

  
  

  Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode.

  Then I tried to reassign the drive letter of the F to h: the display shows the file system is "RAW and the status is healthy, etc."  He doesn't see this as a NTFS format, even if the chkdsk identified it in this way with the correct volume lable, so I know it was to see the right player.  I almost all still on my coomputer - this backup is material that I could go back more old backup drives, but it's the best version of consolicated of my automatic backups of Win 7, so I didn't it wouldn't be pretty.  Am I out of luck?  Is this drive Kaput

  and should I give up on this?

  Thank you

  Hello
  I suggest you contact the manufacturer of the USB to the backup drive then try formatting the USB and check if the problem persists.

• CD - RW will only burn the data read-only and will not format a disk

  I have a laptop Latitude D610 w/a CD-RW/DVD (SCB5265) disc.  I can burn data on CD, but the data is read-only.  I can't format a drive either.  The drive itself seems to be well - do I need a different software?  If so, someone know where I can find that?

  Thank you - this forum has been a great help to me.

  
  

• Apple UDIF read only compressed (bzip2) in my iMac!

  I noticed a new feature added to my iMac:

  'Apple UDIF read-only compressed (Bzip2)'

  What? Why? and how did get there?

  Why do I need?

  I think, but not sure it was added after the last updated iTunes (version 12.1)

  No explanation will be appreciated.

  PS

  It does not appear in my Finder...

  Thank you

  

  

  

  This is the disk image to the Flash Player installer that you downloaded.

  It is not mounted, so it will not be displayed in the Finder.

  With it, selected as shown in the second screenshot, click on the button of the mount. Then, eject in the Finder.

• USB key came into read-only mode

  Hello

  This morning my USB key came into read-only mode and I can't reverse this trend. I just assumed to come from the third party who helped me write on NTFS, but I have a drive HARD Toshiba (NTFS) that works and a USB key that is read-only. I changed the third party software and the same result. I tried the option 'get info' and I still do not see the permissions.

  I tried to format the drive - because it is read-only won't let me not - it. And so on.

  I tried disk utility - no result.

  I need an idea, suggestion, something for it to work.

  Thank you.

  When some Flash storage starts to falter, it locks in a read-only mode. So, it might be failing.

  When you try to format the drive, you must select the drive itself in disk utility, not partitions. If that's how you try to reformat, so I guess it's a failure.

• How to format FAT32 Memory Stick that says that it is read only

  I have a 8 GB USB key (directly from the provider) that I can't write or re-form.  Under sharing and permissions of the USB it says that my access is read-only.  If I try to delete it via disk utility I get an error message saying it didn't - I see by looking at the "details" that permission has been denied.

  I tried to re - format the USB on a windows as well without success.

  Suspect it may be defective and are returned to the vendor but I was wondering if anyone has something else to think about.

  Thanks in advance,

  Cliff

  If you can not select the drive and delete and back in shape, then it is a bad drive. No new flash drive would come from a manufacturer as read only anyway. Even your mac must write in this format.

• External HD has declared to be "Disabled owner." Allows to read only.

  After upgrade of El Cap, I can't fully use my HD as before ext USB. It allows access only to 'read only '. Use utility disk to try to solve the problem, I found a screen which shows my post HD is 'disabled owner.' How can I regain full use of HD? I tired help to find a way, but the instructions that help me are not available. It tell me to click on things that do not exist on my screen.

  How the HD is formatted? I'm guessing that it is formatted in NTFS, a Windows and Mac format can only read but not write, without additional software.

  Many people met with a similar problem, as the third party software they had installed for writing on the NTFS volume was not compatible with El Capitan.

  Possible solutions are: 1) the updated software to deal with such road; or (2) save it and reformat the drive in OS x journaled booked or, if you need to use it with Windows, ExFAT machines. ExFAT formatted drives can be written and read by Mac and Windows.

  I would recommend option 2).