Solved Read Only Issues

Hello everybody,

I recently purchased a hp laptop running Vista Home Premium. I've been quite pleased, but have a minor issue with the read only permissions. While trying to move a file in an .iso image on a virtual drive, Vista said it needed permission to preform the action. I clicked the allow button, and it seemed to continue, only to tell me moments later that I needed permission. I looked into the issue, and discovered that the folders were both read-only, an attribute I've tried to remove several times. Any ideas? And yes, I am logged in as the admin.

Thanks in advance,
QuantumDawn

QuantumDawn:

Have you taken ownership of the file?

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67717-take-ownership-file.html


Ardneh

If the ISO file is in an emulated CD/DVD drive, then it's likely that the drive is locked into ReadOnly mode as a regular CD/DVD would be when in a regular CD/DVD drive.

Copy the ISO to your VM's Desktop and see if that fixes it.

Hello again,

Thank you so much for all the advice. The virtual drive was locked in Read Only, so I unpacked the ISO and sorted out the files through there.

Happy detonations