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Mar 23, 2009

I have an external harddisk which continuesly is read only no matter what i do. I have browsed the net intensively to find a solution, but can se the problem solved anywhere. I am running Vista Home Premium x64. When I right click the HD and click preperties, I dont have a security tab, so I cant do the solutions that involve that.

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