Drive Has Suddenly Decided To Be "Read-Only"
Dec 4, 2007
Okay so here is my situation. I have to sell this computer soon, but I have two hard drives. Since one of them has a lot of valuable data on it, I decided to keep one of them, and only sell one hard drive with the computer.Before this, I had Windows XP installed on BOTH drives. I kept the one on the old hard drive as a back up. Anyway, since this hard drive was gonna go, I had to delete everything on the hard drive. So I formatted the drive, and now suddenly, it says the OTHER drive is read only! I didn't even touch it!It won't even let me access the XP start up, it'll only let me insert my Ubuntu Live CD! Is there anything I can do with the Windows Installation CD to make it so this hard drive ISN'T read-only?(I already tried reinstalling Windows, it won't even let me do that!)I desperately need to resolve this fast, because somebody will be coming to pick up the old hard drive soon.TL;DR: Deleting a partition on my other drive has made my main one read-only.
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Dec 9, 2007
One of my co-workers has been having this odd problem and I'm not sure what to make of it. On occasion, she goes to open an INDD (Adobe InDesign) file which is stored on our Windows 2003 server, and it opens as "read-only." She opens the file to make changes and can't because InDesign won't let her save any changes to the file.There's no apparent reason for this - she has full access to the file, the file's read-only bit has not been set, and there's plenty of space on the server.What she usually does to get around it is to "Save As." over the file she's just opened. That normally works. On occasion this doesn't work and she has to "Save As." to her desktop, then "Save As." back over the original. It's a pain for her at the very least.
What's odd is that I've checked the "open files" list on that Windows 2003 server when she gets the error. Her workstation suddenly opens a whole handful of zip files located on the same Windows 2003 server (some of our digital artwork comes in zip packages). They are opened in read mode only (READ, not READ-WRITE).When she does her "save as." and gets past the error, the read locks/handles on the zip files are closed also. The ZIP thing sounded suspicious to me and I scanned her computer (as well as the ZIPs) for viruses. Nothing came up. I have since even re-installed the entire operating system (Windows XP Professional, SP2) and still the same behavior.Now what's funny is it's only InDesign (CS). All of her other apps (even other Adobe apps) seem to behave correctly.
I've even inspected her network wiring and replaced her aged CAT5 with brand-new CAT5e, which needed to be done anyway. (we run gigabit). Net connections are solid (she's only 20-30 feet away from my office where all the office switches are located, which makes things easier). No one else in the office has the problem, and her computer (and software installed) is comparable to everyone else's, at least in her department.
Our software is too old to get support from Adobe (upgrading to CS3 isn't financially feasible at the moment but not sure an upgrade would help if I don't know what the problem is), and I've tried the official Adobe forums with no luck. I didn't get very far - most of the people on that forum aren't PC/NET tech experts, just Adobe users (for the most part). It seems that way, anyway.I guess I'm running out of ideas. What should I do to figure out what's going on here?
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