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You think that pointing out a compatibility condition is useless. Many
people place the same problematical drive in another manufacturers external
case and the drive works fine!
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Regards,
Richard Urban
aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"Jim" <NOSPAM@no.com> wrote in message
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> Useless Post
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> "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>I have never installed a hard drive in a case but I have, and use, 3
>>external USB 2.0 hard drives from major manufacturers. I have never
>>experienced the problem you describe. What I save a file at - it stays at!
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>> The big difference, of course, is that my hard drive and its enclosure
>> (and associated electronics) were assembled and tested as a unit by the
>> manufacturer and found to be compatible. Guess yours aren't!
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>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>>
>> aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard
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>> If you knew as much as you think you know,
>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>>
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>> "EJ" <EJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>>> Every once in a while, my external hard drive defaults to Read-Only. I
>>> used
>>> to be able to turn off Read-Only one folder at a time, but this time it
>>> is
>>> just resetting it to Read-Only. Why would it do this, and how can I
>>> stop it?
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>>> I'm using a Western Digital 200 GB Internal Hard Drive in an external
>>> enclosure, hooked up via USB 2.0.
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