Unable to disable read-only attribute on logical partition

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I created a logical partition which has been mounted to a folder
location on an extended partition. However, the folder/partition has
a read-only attribute assigned to it which I cannot disable. The
operating system is Windows XP SP2. The size of the logical partition
is 150MB. I've tried both IDE and SATA drives to no avail. Any
ideas?
 
j-bird said:
I created a logical partition which has been mounted to a folder
location on an extended partition. However, the folder/partition has
a read-only attribute assigned to it which I cannot disable. The
operating system is Windows XP SP2. The size of the logical partition
is 150MB. I've tried both IDE and SATA drives to no avail. Any
ideas?
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The read only attribute on folders is a misnomer: It is NOT read only for
the folder; you can delete, rename, whatever that folder without problems.
The read only only applies to the files within the folder.

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j-bird said:
I understand that. So how do I disable read-only for the files in
that folder?
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Either select the folder and click it for Properties, click to remove the
read-only, and it should ask you if you want to include only files in that
folder or all files in all folders; I forget the wording.

Or if that;s confusing, select all the files at once, right click and choose
Properties, remove the read-only from there.

HTH
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