Drive D is read only/not writable/requires administrative permission for everything.

[CharlieKasper]

Hi

My internal hard drive partition D is admin protected in some way.

When I try to install world of tanks in it, it says iinsufficient permission, please select another folder.

When I try to create a steam library folder in it, it says drive is read only/not writeable.

When I try to create a folder in it, it requires admin permission, (even though I am the admin).

I have no idea why and how it happened but I would like to change that. Any advice?

 

[captaincharisma]

without further info about the drive it may be corrupt or you're not logged into an account that has administrative privileges

 

[ThatVietGuy]

Is this a brand new drive or are you salvaging an old boot drive from another computer?

We need a lot more background info.

 

[JaymanHD]

I agree with the answers above, you either don't have admin privileges (which you would have to obtain the password if you are not the computer administrator) or you got it from another computer( you may want to format the drive if windows lets you)

 

[CharlieKasper]

My laptop is Lenovo Y50.

I haven't changed the hard drive, so its the same hard drive since that came with it. I have however clean installed about 5 times since I bought it (about 2 years ago). The 5th clean install was yesterday.

My microsoft account registered to the Windows is the only account that exists in my laptop, so I am the owner of the laptop.

 

[captaincharisma]

My laptop is Lenovo Y50.

I haven't changed the hard drive, so its the same hard drive since that came with it. I have however clean installed about 5 times since I bought it (about 2 years ago). The 5th clean install was yesterday.

My microsoft account registered to the Windows is the only account that exists in my laptop, so I am the owner of the laptop.

so is drive D another Partition on you drive or is drive D an external hard disk? drive D may be the recovery partition lenovo pre loaded on your drive so you would be able to set your laptop back to factory settings. if this is the case they may have set it up tobe for the recovery data only and doesn't allow you to to access that partition

 

[CharlieKasper]

Its a drive from my internal hard drive. I created that partition and 2 other partitions from the only partition that my laptop came with. It always worked okay.

Anyway, i noticed that my drive wasnt read only, but a folder where i installed games in was. I deleted that folder and reinstalled games in another folder and everythkng works now. Topic can be locked.