sata drive stays read only.

Hi,

I've a windows xp w/ sp2 from DELL.

i connected a newly ntfs formated sata hard drive (250 GB). it allows me to
save files to the drive and create folders and delete folder.

when i look at the attribute of the folder or file, it says it is Read-only.
i can delete it if i take the drive out and use it as a usb drive. if i put
it back to the win xp box, it won't even let me delete a file.

how can i correctly remove the Read-only attribute? I've tried right click
folder and uncheck the attribute. i have tried attrib -R folderName from
DOS. neither work...

please help.

thanks.

That is wierd. One thing to try is to backup anything you need on the drive,
then go to Computer Management - Disk Management and find the new drive. Try
reformatting it and if that does not help delete the logical drive, create
it again and reformat it to see what happens.

Steve


"light_wt" <lightwt DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I've a windows xp w/ sp2 from DELL.
>
> i connected a newly ntfs formated sata hard drive (250 GB). it allows me
> to
> save files to the drive and create folders and delete folder.
>
> when i look at the attribute of the folder or file, it says it is
> Read-only.
> i can delete it if i take the drive out and use it as a usb drive. if i
> put
> it back to the win xp box, it won't even let me delete a file.
>
> how can i correctly remove the Read-only attribute? I've tried right
> click
> folder and uncheck the attribute. i have tried attrib -R folderName from
> DOS. neither work...
>
> please help.
>
> thanks.
>
>