Fast Repair Workflow for Save Write Failures and Read-Only Locks
After finishing a mission in Splinter Cell Remake the save prompt keeps failing to write—the Great Wall GT580 1TB SSD seems locked. Exit the game, right-click the save folder, go to properties, and notice permissions have been stripped in the security tab. Immediately run Command Prompt as administrator and use icacls to fully reset folder permissions with inheritance to all children. Next open Disk Management, right-click the target partition, go to properties, and run error checking from the tools tab—the system scans and fixes two filesystem metadata inconsistencies. Switch to the storage optimization tool, confirm TRIM is disabled, manually re-enable it, and force one optimization pass. Back in the game directory delete the failed temporary save file. Re-enter the game, play a short segment, and save—the overwrite succeeds and speed is noticeably better. To prevent recurrence go into power plans and disable fast startup cache for drives so the controller never glitches during heavy writes. The entire fix takes under 20 minutes, save writes return to normal, and critical progress stays safely preserved.
