New Hard Drive

[Tomlo]

I just got a new hard drive, a seagate sata 3gb 1.5 tb. In order to intall it I had to remove my ram and place it back, now one stick will not work. Well that sucks but its not my problem.

I cloned my old hard drive using seagate's disc manager program. It worked, im posting from the new hard drive now, however every single file is read only and i cant fix it. I tried changing security settings and file/folder settings but it just wont budge. Im just really pissed now, I expect things to work correctly. Any suggestions please?

[osprey4]

Operating system?

This happened to my son and he ended up reinstalling.

[Tomlo]

Windows 7 64, Ive managed to get some more folders to let me work with them but I still cant for example create a text file on the C:\ drive. I think that I need to fix it so that i have full privileges.

[Nude_Lewd_Man]

Just checking, but are you set to be a member of the "Local Administrators" group..? By default, users who are just "Users" don't have sufficient permissions to write to the root of the drive, or [IIRC] to create folders there...

[RacerX]

try creating a new user w/ admin privileges and see if that works for the new account.
If so, delete the old account and you're fine.
if not, try this:
You cannot view or change the Read-only or the System attributes of folders in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, in Windows Vista or in Windows 7

[JPMiller]

The problem is in the way you "cloned" it
a true Cloning should never be done through the OS
You should use something like HDClone to clone the drive from a bootable CD
I'm guessing you will run into other issues as well, I've done the same thing and whenever I used programs run in the OS there were all sorts of odd issues that often only showed up over time and usage.