W8, lost permission to delete files
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PostPosted: Thu, 10th Oct 2013 22:51    Post subject: W8, lost permission to delete files
There was a Windows update this morning and after it I lost the ability to delete anything from my 2nd partition

I can read from it, but I can't delete anything. Steam won't start, i can't run emulators, I have nfi what happened.

It is a single drive with two partitions

Any ideas?
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PostPosted: Thu, 10th Oct 2013 22:54    Post subject:
Take permissions of the entire drive, all files. In file properties -> security.
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PostPosted: Thu, 10th Oct 2013 23:19    Post subject:
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PostPosted: Thu, 10th Oct 2013 23:35    Post subject:
Are you using FAT for that drive? Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu, 10th Oct 2013 23:54    Post subject:
Right click on computer, manage. Go into disk manager. Post a screenshot of what you see there. One of the drives could be "read only".
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PostPosted: Fri, 11th Oct 2013 00:13    Post subject:
What is the exact error you get when deleting?
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PostPosted: Fri, 11th Oct 2013 00:13    Post subject:
You have more free on the OS drive than d:\. Just move the content, format to a proper file system and return it.
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PostPosted: Fri, 11th Oct 2013 16:32    Post subject:
Try this on one file/folder, if it works use it on everything.

takeown /f <file>
icacls <file> /reset

This will attempt to take ownership and reset file permissions (ACL) on the folder/file. While it's same thing you could do in GUI (File properties window), it proved to me a bit more reliable than GUI approach Smile
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He has FAT as file system of the drive. Those are for NTFS file security and are irrelevant in his case.
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