harddisk write protected!?

24 January 2010, 11:04

hi all.i have winuae emulator preinstaled with scalos.i created 2 harddrives and everything works great using windows Xp,however i'm using windows 7 now and all of a sudden my harddrives in scalos shows that they are write protected so i can't save my games etc..can anybody help me how can i make them writeble?it's strange,i changed nothing but i this is what i says using win 7.i tried for a long time to find out,but can't make it.any suggestions are very appreciated.thanks in advance

Jope · 24 January 2010, 12:43

Start winuae as administrator?

Probably an NTFS file permissions problem, you are not allowed to write in there.

Toni Wilen · 24 January 2010, 14:24

"Program Files" is write-protected by default since Vista.

thomas · 24 January 2010, 19:02

On Vista and 7 you should only put winuae.exe into C:\Program Files\WinUAE. Everything else shoud go into C:\Users\Public\Amiga Files. WinUAE will automatically find its stuff there.

When moving from XP to Vista or 7 you might have to change access permissions and/or ownership of the directory and might be even every single file.

24 January 2010, 11:04	#1
jitrnic Posts: n/a	harddisk write protected!? hi all.i have winuae emulator preinstaled with scalos.i created 2 harddrives and everything works great using windows Xp,however i'm using windows 7 now and all of a sudden my harddrives in scalos shows that they are write protected so i can't save my games etc..can anybody help me how can i make them writeble?it's strange,i changed nothing but i this is what i says using win 7.i tried for a long time to find out,but can't make it.any suggestions are very appreciated.thanks in advance

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24 January 2010, 12:43	#2
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,861	Start winuae as administrator? Probably an NTFS file permissions problem, you are not allowed to write in there.

24 January 2010, 14:24	#3
Toni Wilen WinUAE developer Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hämeenlinna/Finland Age: 49 Posts: 26,505	"Program Files" is write-protected by default since Vista.

24 January 2010, 19:02	#4
thomas Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 6,985	On Vista and 7 you should only put winuae.exe into C:\Program Files\WinUAE. Everything else shoud go into C:\Users\Public\Amiga Files. WinUAE will automatically find its stuff there. When moving from XP to Vista or 7 you might have to change access permissions and/or ownership of the directory and might be even every single file.

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