Permanent Read Only Tag?

Muriden

I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2 and I have a partition that is formatted for the FAT32 FS. Every file, folder, and what not is constantly set to Read Only. I change it in the properties of the file, I run the attrib command in the command line but it always changes back to Read Only. Anyone know how to fix this?

Muriden

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Thanatos

Reformat it in NTFS?

Ruckus

Thanatos wrote:

Reformat it in NTFS?

CONVERT it to NTFS.

type "convert /?" at a command line for more info.

Locust76

Maybe Windows XP isn't digging your use of the attrib command? I think maybe you should try right clicking said files or folders and checking off the read only tag.

Just a thought..

But yea, when you have the time, convert to NTFS. Much more efficient use of disk space.

blincoln

Did you maybe check the box for the entire drive? That would apply to anything newly created in it from then on.

Other than that, it sounds like something is running amok on your system.

Muriden

I have it formatted for FAT32 so that when I boot into linux I have a common drive.

I've tried the right click and change the attributes to all method with no success. And yes fuck you Bill Gates, rabble rabble rabble.

blincoln

How soon does it change back to read only? Immediately? When you reboot, etc?

Muriden

Immediately. As soon as I hit ok and the properties window closes, it immediately changes back. I haven't found much, thanks for thinking.

st0ned messiah

Can you make it non-read-only when you're booted in Linux? (Assuming the answer is yes)

blincoln

I think you've got some sort of malware, or a corrupt system file or something. I've never heard of something that bizarre. If I were you, I'd reformat and reinstall.

Muriden

I don't believe it's malware. I don't know if it's corrupt FS.
I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I'm going to need to format and reinstall but am dragging my feet with it and posted here to see if there were any other options.

Finster

Did you your Linux Distro's installer to format the drive as FAT32? (I assume not, but just checking.) Also, have you run chkdsk on it?

Muriden

When I was making the partitions I used the linux distro to size things and told it to format for FAT32 so yes.
I'll run chkdsk and see what it turns up but I think I'm going to end up formatting .

Ruckus

check it out in your Linux, maybe qtparted has a feature for readonly partitions or something...

3lwap0

Ruckus wrote:

Thanatos wrote:

Reformat it in NTFS?

CONVERT it to NTFS.

type "convert /?" at a command line for more info.

Convert <Drive letter> /FS:NTFS

You'll have to reboot the machine, and it'll convert. Once you convert it, you can't go back.

Muriden

I ended up formatting. Apparently there was something far more devious at hand.

I pop in my WinXP disk to format and it thinks that I've only gone half way through the install process. Once it loads the drivers for the install environment it starts copying files to the hard drive. After it's done with that it tries to set up windows on a partition that doesn't exist and then claims that said partition was corrupt, then reboots and the process loops.

With this happening I install Windows Vista RC1. The install went really smoothly and all of my shit didn't get lost in the process.

But now I have Windows Vista RC1 installed..... God help me.
I'll probably play around with Vista RC1 and see how well it fares. I can just format it now that the XP installation has unfucked itself.

So not solved, but my problem is gone. Does that make sense?

_X_

I'd suggest setting up 2 partitions on your 1 hard drive. Set a small partition aside for Linux and put a larger one for Windows XP. I set mine at 20GB for my OS partition then 110GB for all my programs, just cleans things up.