Help- HD stuck in Read Only

OS: Vista Home Premium 32bit
Laptop: HP Pavilion dv9319us

This model of laptop has a bay for an extra on-board HD and I have one installed. This is where I keep my Documents and personal folders and my Japanese VM. I sent my laptop to HP for a repair and took my extra drive out. They repaired my laptop and had to reinstall Vista.

I put my second drive back- but now everything is set to read-only and I cannot change it. Here is a list of what I have done so far:

logged in as administrator and changed permissions.
changed the owner to myself
I did this for the entire drive then tried to change the read only to Off- and it seems to work- but when I check again- it is reset to read only.

I am unable to work on any of my documents or make changes to anything. I can save new items- but I need access to my work!

Please help!
Thanks!
Jo

Hi,

You could try this - 30 day free trial.

1st Disk Drive Protector - hide, lock and secure local, network, Floppy and USB drives

Untick anything that is showing , click Apply then reboot.

Ok- I tried that and nothing is showing as locked or read-only. I can make it so- but obviously I don't want to double up on something I don't want in the first place.

I may have to move all my stuff and reformat the drive and hope that I can move it back and have permission to change things- any other ideas before I do this?

I know this is a HUGE problem since a general search brought up many people that have had this same or a similar issue and so far- no solutions are working for many of us.

Thanks!

Jo