Writing to the root

[grasmith]

Could anyone explain to me why I cannot (for instance) create an ISO image file in C:\

I get an error message: "Unable to create or replace file

Reason: A required privilege is not held by the client"

 

[Brink]

Hello Grasmith, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You will need to create the ISO image to your C:\Users\(user name)\Desktop or %USERPROFILE%\Desktop first, then you should be able to move it to C:\ .

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[grasmith]

Thanks Shawn.

Will try that now, but can you explain "A required privilege is not held by the client".

Can one obtain the required privilege?

Grasmith

 

[grasmith]

Hi Shawn

Tried your suggestion and got same error message

This whole business cropped up through an error in writing an ISO file to root rather than to the desired directory/folder.

I suppose therefor that the inability to write to root is academic.

I would still like to know if there is a "work-around" purely for curiosity sake.

regards Grasmith

P.S (21.44 U.K Time):

I think I now understand why writing files to root directory/folder is a no-no.

Vista is securitising the root against file write to protect system files located there.

 

[Brink]

Grasmith,

Are you part of a domain? If so, this would be a policy that the domain administrator has set to prevent this.