Drives Marked Read Only

I have several hard drives on my PCs; some are physical, some are partitions. In every PC I've upgraded, W10 marks these as RO. I go through the ritual of setting permissions to Full and marking RW, but occasionally a drive will revert to RO.

I can't find a Take Ownership option for drives, only folders. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Hello Nigel, :)

If it's only a read-only issue and not a permissions issue, then you might see if the tutorial below may help.

Disk Write Protection - Enable or Disable in Windows - Windows 10 Forums

Thanks Shawn, but does that do something different from using the checkmark in Properties?

Yeah, this would involve read-only for write protection instead of permissions.

attributes disk clear readonly

I get DiskPart failed to clear disk attributes

Having said that, it says it is Read-only: No anyway.

I've now found the drive Owner setting (Properties | Security | Advanced | Owner is at the top of the window)

Did taking ownership help?

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

Brink said:

Did taking ownership help?

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

Will report back in a few days.