Can't remove the "read only" tag from folder on "C" drive

Hi

I am currently running Windows XP Home Edition SP2. I have a directory on my "C" drive called My Music (which I created myself), it also has a personalised folder icon. I recently purchased a 250gb external hard drive which I can copy all my music across to just incase something goes wrong. I can't for the life of me remove the "read only" tag from this folder on my "C" drive, so I can't copy my music to the external HD. I have tried using regedit and entering a new d-word value as suggested on other boards, which didn't work, plus when you run cmd.exe, the default directory for changing file attributes always comes up as C:\ Documents & Settings, not just "C ".
Any help or advice that you guys can offer me, would be gratefully received.

Regards


Chime

 

Steve

I right click the folder and hit properties.
I deselect the "read only" tab and apply all settings to other folders and files within the "My Music" folder
Once it has gone through all the files, I click ok
As soon as I go back to the folder and hit properties, "read only" is still selected


Mark

 

Steve

I get this error message: -

Cannot copy file:cannot read from the source file or disk


Mark

 

PS - I get that message once I have tried to paste to the external drive



Chime

 

Folders under XP are always Read-only, and this has nothing to do with earlier notions of Read-only. It is a flag to XP whether there is a desktop.ini file to be procesed by Explorer or not.

This attribute cannot be changed: You cannot view or change the Read-only or the System attributes of folders in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, in Windows Vista or in Windows 7

It has nothing to do with read errors you are receiving.

Try Start, Run, CMD

md "e:\My Music "
copy "\documents and settings\Chime\My Documents\My Music\*.*" "E:\My Music "

Please adjust paths in the above to suit your installation.