DaxOnTheSax

Hi and many thanks to all you geeks in the know out there! I'm going nuts at the moment trying to figure out the problem with my maxtor 400gig external drive and I've searched high and low on Google and forums for help and got nothing of use yet.
So, problem is that I've got all my music and films on there as well as some important music and graphic design projects that I need to keep safe and whilst I can access all the files, I can't move, rename or delete any of them without getting the warning: access denied, full or write protected when it is neither of the two. As you can imagine this makes keeping everything organised a bit of a pain. It's NTFS. Unpartitioned. I know for a fact the permissions are set properly. I've used the "Unlocker" program to somewhat limited success, making it pretty much pointless. I really need to sort this out before I format the whole damned thing and have a breakdown. It wont even let me rename songs via iTunes!
Please please please give me some idea of what's going on and some thoughts on resolving this! (The less invasive the better!) I'm pretty competent so don't be afraid of being technical.
Thanks for reading!
Dax

Snoopdogie187

I'm not sure if XP SP3 is like Vista, but when I first got vista and I had my hard drive from XP SP2, it did give me a lot of premission problems.

I would right click on the drive in My Computer, go to properties, and then click on the Security tab. I have two boxes, one with the users of the compute (system, admin, users, etc.), Click on the one you are (probably just users) and click edit.Then give yourself full control. Some you do this, you may get a lot of pop ups saying you can't get premission of that file, and such, just click continue and hope it isn't too many. (it shouldn't be a lot, only the files that are really important to Windows.)

I'm sorry if these instructions don't work for you, this was for Vista and I haven't had a look at XP SP3 yet.