Why is my hard drive actubg as thour it is write-protected?

I have been attempting to install a small but old calendar program to my
hard drive and I receive the following message:

"You are attempting to install to a write-protected drive, such as a CD-ROM,
or a drive with no space. Please try again."

I have lots of space on my hard disk -- but why does it indicate it is
write-protected? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

The key to your question is "old"
Try right clicking it and properties / compatibility and choosing one of the
choices that
you know works..

"Bill" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I have been attempting to install a small but old calendar program to my
>hard drive and I receive the following message:
>
> "You are attempting to install to a write-protected drive, such as a
> CD-ROM, or a drive with no space. Please try again."
>
> I have lots of space on my hard disk -- but why does it indicate it is
> write-protected? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I think grege means that you should use the compatibility wizard to install
the program. If you had been able to install it but it wouldn't run, you
would do as he suggested. The compatibility wizard is easiest to find by
typing compatibility into the search box on control panel.

"Bill" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I have been attempting to install a small but old calendar program to my
>hard drive and I receive the following message:
>
> "You are attempting to install to a write-protected drive, such as a
> CD-ROM, or a drive with no space. Please try again."
>
> I have lots of space on my hard disk -- but why does it indicate it is
> write-protected? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I think little johnny barnes means "the search box on the start menu", not
control panel

"John Barnes" <> wrote in message
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>I think grege means that you should use the compatibility wizard to install
>the program. If you had been able to install it but it wouldn't run, you
>would do as he suggested. The compatibility wizard is easiest to find by
>typing compatibility into the search box on control panel.
>
> "Bill" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>I have been attempting to install a small but old calendar program to my
>>hard drive and I receive the following message:
>>
>> "You are attempting to install to a write-protected drive, such as a
>> CD-ROM, or a drive with no space. Please try again."
>>
>> I have lots of space on my hard disk -- but why does it indicate it is
>> write-protected? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>

I think what John and Grege mean is that the install program is incorrectly
interpreting your hard drive as being write-protected because it is
attempting to write to some folder that Vista is not allowing it to write to
and the installation program is misinterpreting the responses from Vista.
Your HD is not write protected. Your old program is just wrong, that's all.

The solution, though - if there is a solution, is the same: The
compatibility wizard.

Dale

"Bill" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I have been attempting to install a small but old calendar program to my
>hard drive and I receive the following message:
>
> "You are attempting to install to a write-protected drive, such as a
> CD-ROM, or a drive with no space. Please try again."
>
> I have lots of space on my hard disk -- but why does it indicate it is
> write-protected? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Many thanks to all for your good advice. The compatibility wizard worked
like a charm.


"Bill" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I have been attempting to install a small but old calendar program to my
>hard drive and I receive the following message:
>
> "You are attempting to install to a write-protected drive, such as a
> CD-ROM, or a drive with no space. Please try again."
>
> I have lots of space on my hard disk -- but why does it indicate it is
> write-protected? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I read some of the other replies, and I don't know if they have helped any.

- Is the program trying to write to a location that it does NOT have access
to?

- Try running it as Admin.

- Try to make sure it has access to the location it is trying to write to.

Many programmers assume everything they write has unlimited access to
everything on the system. They don't seem to understand write permissions,
and so may not have even coded the proper error message for whent they
occur.


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"Bill" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I have been attempting to install a small but old calendar program to my
>hard drive and I receive the following message:
>
> "You are attempting to install to a write-protected drive, such as a
> CD-ROM, or a drive with no space. Please try again."
>
> I have lots of space on my hard disk -- but why does it indicate it is
> write-protected? Any suggestions would be appreciated.