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Both internal hard drives marked as read-only - have tried everything
Hi, I don't know why my computer is so screwy, but now it seems both of my internal hard drives are marked as read-only. All folders are read-only and I am unable to change the permissions of the folders so I can write to them. I have tried changing the read only attribute from the folder using the button for it, but every time I try to do this, an error message pops up saying "Access is denied". I also tried using the attrib command at the command line, and also some third party utilities for changing permissions. None of these options has worked! I am at my wit's end here!!! I even looked in the BIOS settings and there does not seem to be any options for changing write permissions in the BIOS.
For everyone's information, I have a Dell XPS Studio 9100 computer (yes, I know, it's several years out of date as I bought it in 2011). One of the hard drives is from western digital (I replaced a samsung drive that came with the computer which failed about a year and a half after I bought it), and the other is the secondary drive that is a Samsung which still works fine.
Anyone able to help me here?