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

From: Luke Dalessandro (usenet_at_luked.net)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:13:19 GMT

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.

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