Try to run the Management Studio exe as Administrator

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>My problem is not in changing the read-only once the DB is attached. In the SQL Express 2005 server, MS 2008 will attach the DB and then in the properties I can just flip the property to Read Only = False.
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>The problem is that on the 2008 server the MS 2008 will not attach the DB at all so I don't think I can use ALTER on it, but rather must attach it programmatically with some clause that indicates it should be attached even though it is seen as read only.
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>I wonder if anyone who is running SQL 2008 RC can reproduce this.
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