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Hi guys,
Im having trouble with my laptop HDD, it is locked read only. This isnt my OS drive, though I have a few programs on it, it is mostly pictures, music and games. A few months back I had to do a clean install of my OS drive. I uninstalled all the programs off of this drive but I kept the other data that is portable, and didnt wipe this drive. That is probably why this issue is happening. I should say first it isnt completely read only. I have installed both a program and a game to the drive today, and it didnt give me any errors. However I cannot make changes to current files. In the root directory if I right click->New there will only be a folder there with the administrator shield. If I go into another folder, I can create more types of files when I right click-new, but I get Error 0x80070522: A required privilege is not held by the client" when I try to create a new .txt document, for instance. Lastly, if I right click a folder, uncheck read only, click apply, there is no longer a blue box, but if I press ok and go into its properties again, it is read only again.
These are all the steps I have tried.
The taking ownership shortcut :
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html?ltr=T
Taking ownership the long way:
-Right click Drive->Properties->Security->Advanced->Owner->Edit
-Click Administrators (My-PC\Administrators)
-Check Replace owner on subcontainers and objects box then Apply
Taking ownership the long, manual way:
- Reboot into Safe Mode.
- Log on as Administrator.
- Click Start
- Type the three letters cmd
- Press Ctrl+Shift+Enter
- Run the process as Administrator.
- Type the following commands and press Enter after each:
takeown /f d:\ /a /r /d y
cacls d:\ /t /c /g administrators:F System:F everyone:F
(Answer "yes" when prompted "Are you sure?")
Clearing disk attributes:
- Start-> Run then type cmd and launch with administrative rights
- Type-> diskpart
- Type-> list volume
- Type-> select volume #
- Type-> attributes vol clear readonly
-Go back to disk management and right click on the volume and Change Drive Letter and Paths
-Click remove on the drive letter and click OK
-Right click on the volume and change Drive Letter and Paths
-Click Add and add your drive letter again
Turning UAC off:
-Click Start > Run > SECPOL.MSC.
-Once the Local Security Policy window opens, under Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options.
-Scroll down to find User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode and then disable it. Yes -> disable it. Then, click the OK button.
-Restart your computer.
So far, only the last step (turning UAC off) has given me full permissions for my drive. It doesnt give me Error 0x80070522: A required privilege is not held by the client" when I try to create a new file in that drive, and all the files are folders arent read only (although they still have the blue square in the read only check box in properties). But I dont want to have UAC permanently off in order to be able to write to this drive. Is there something I havent tried yet that you could please help me with?
Thank you so much!
Im having trouble with my laptop HDD, it is locked read only. This isnt my OS drive, though I have a few programs on it, it is mostly pictures, music and games. A few months back I had to do a clean install of my OS drive. I uninstalled all the programs off of this drive but I kept the other data that is portable, and didnt wipe this drive. That is probably why this issue is happening. I should say first it isnt completely read only. I have installed both a program and a game to the drive today, and it didnt give me any errors. However I cannot make changes to current files. In the root directory if I right click->New there will only be a folder there with the administrator shield. If I go into another folder, I can create more types of files when I right click-new, but I get Error 0x80070522: A required privilege is not held by the client" when I try to create a new .txt document, for instance. Lastly, if I right click a folder, uncheck read only, click apply, there is no longer a blue box, but if I press ok and go into its properties again, it is read only again.
These are all the steps I have tried.
The taking ownership shortcut :
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html?ltr=T
Taking ownership the long way:
-Right click Drive->Properties->Security->Advanced->Owner->Edit
-Click Administrators (My-PC\Administrators)
-Check Replace owner on subcontainers and objects box then Apply
Taking ownership the long, manual way:
- Reboot into Safe Mode.
- Log on as Administrator.
- Click Start
- Type the three letters cmd
- Press Ctrl+Shift+Enter
- Run the process as Administrator.
- Type the following commands and press Enter after each:
takeown /f d:\ /a /r /d y
cacls d:\ /t /c /g administrators:F System:F everyone:F
(Answer "yes" when prompted "Are you sure?")
Clearing disk attributes:
- Start-> Run then type cmd and launch with administrative rights
- Type-> diskpart
- Type-> list volume
- Type-> select volume #
- Type-> attributes vol clear readonly
-Go back to disk management and right click on the volume and Change Drive Letter and Paths
-Click remove on the drive letter and click OK
-Right click on the volume and change Drive Letter and Paths
-Click Add and add your drive letter again
Turning UAC off:
-Click Start > Run > SECPOL.MSC.
-Once the Local Security Policy window opens, under Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options.
-Scroll down to find User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode and then disable it. Yes -> disable it. Then, click the OK button.
-Restart your computer.
So far, only the last step (turning UAC off) has given me full permissions for my drive. It doesnt give me Error 0x80070522: A required privilege is not held by the client" when I try to create a new file in that drive, and all the files are folders arent read only (although they still have the blue square in the read only check box in properties). But I dont want to have UAC permanently off in order to be able to write to this drive. Is there something I havent tried yet that you could please help me with?
Thank you so much!