NFTS vs. FAT 32

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I put a new hard drive on my computer and made three partitions in NFTS. I
had backed up some user created files that were originally in FAT 32. When I
put them on the new hard drive, Front Page won't open any of the web pages.
If I "save as" from the CD where I backed up these web page to another
partition, Front Page has no problem with them. If I move or copy the new
created web pages back to the partition to where I originally copied them
from, Front Page won't open them. What gives?

I have a white box, AMD Duron 1.3 Ghz, 512 MB RAM and Windows 2000
Professional.

Cody
 
Check your NTFS permissions. Copying files from CD often
results in the read-only attribute being set.
 
"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote
Check your NTFS permissions. Copying files from CD often
results in the read-only attribute being set.
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How do I change that? Yes, all the files are "read only".

Thanks!

Cody
 
As I said before, you may need to check your NTFS
permissions. Click Start / Help, then look for the help
pages on NTFS permissions, and how to display or to
set them.
 
I found permissions in the help and right clicked on a file, went to
security and, being as there is only one person using this computer, there
are no users, just the adminstrator, permission was granted and ticked for
everyone.

Cody
 
Cody said:
I put a new hard drive on my computer and made three partitions in NFTS. I
had backed up some user created files that were originally in FAT 32. When I
put them on the new hard drive, Front Page won't open any of the web pages.
If I "save as" from the CD where I backed up these web page to another
partition, Front Page has no problem with them. If I move or copy the new
created web pages back to the partition to where I originally copied them
from, Front Page won't open them. What gives?

I have a white box, AMD Duron 1.3 Ghz, 512 MB RAM and Windows 2000
Professional.

Cody
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Where are you copying the files to, Cody. I think Pegasus is onto
something; could very well be perms, but it doesn't have to be only on
files - could be the folders. What error does FP give you?
 
Ricardo M. Urbano - W2K/NT4 MVP said:
Where are you copying the files to, Cody. I think Pegasus is onto
something; could very well be perms, but it doesn't have to be only on
files - could be the folders. What error does FP give you?
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I just unticked the folder's properties where it also had "read only"
ticked. Front page is giving me two errors:

Cannot open file "service.lck" for writing.

and

The file "name of the folder" is not found in the current Web.

Thanks,

Cody
 
What I don't understand is if I "save as" the folders onto another partition
(E), Front Page works just fine. But if I "save as" the folders to this
partition (D), it won't work. Both are NTFS partitions; all three of my
partitions are NTFS. If I create a file with Front Page, I can't save it to
the partition D but I can save it to partition E. The other files that I
copied from the CD RW, all in Word, work just fine. I can also open the html
files in disk D with Word, just not with Front Page.

Cody
 
Cody said:
NFTS.

I just unticked the folder's properties where it also had "read only"
ticked. Front page is giving me two errors:

Cannot open file "service.lck" for writing.

and

The file "name of the folder" is not found in the current Web.

Thanks,

Cody
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Let's get this thing away from Front Page. Try this:
- Start a Command Prompt
- Type these commands:
copy /b e:\SomeFolder\service.lck e:\SomeFolder\service.org
copy /b c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe e:\SomeFolder\service.lck

You must set "e:\SomeFolder" to the actual drive & folder name
where service.lck resides.

What message do you see on the screen when you execute the
second "copy" command?

To restore things, you must now rename service.org to service.lck.
 
I solved it by downloading all my webs from my FTP and putting them into a
newly created folder. Now FP opens them all correctly.

Cody
 
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