Hard Drive is Write Protected?

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DRT

I have Vista installed here and one of my regular internal ATA
drives has become write protected.

When I try to do anything that involves a write, Vista brings up a
message saying, "The media is write protected". This is normally
something you get when working with removable media. How can an
internal HDD be write protected?

I'm sure its *not* a permissions problem. I have Administrator
access and own the files. I try to even up the files up to Everyone
but get the write protected message. I can't even rename a file or
directory.

Can someone explain how to undo this? There is no checkbox anywhere
when viewing a drive that indicates "write protected" as far as I
can tell. Please help! Thanks!

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Hi DRT,

Do you get any errors during boot up ?

What are you exactly doing before the message appears ?

Have you ran a full disk check on the drive ?

Are there any errors in the event log indicating a disk problem ?
 
The same problem as what? I don't see the OP? Do you mean you can't defrag
your HD? I'd like to help but I don't see a clear statement of what's going
on.

CH
 
Bladez said:
I have the exact same problem..

i can even defragment my external Hd..
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The same problem as what? No one knows to what you're referring since you
are not posting on a real forum as you think you are and you didn't quote
any of the thread to which you are replying. You are using a web interface
that leeches Usenet posts and most of the rest of us are using real
newsreaders. We don't see what you do. If you want to participate in
Usenet, the better way is to set up a newsreader. This is very easy to do
and I'll give you information about that below. If you prefer to use a
forum, then here are two excellent ones:

http://forum.aumha.org/index.php
http://http://computerhaven.info/

Since you are using a web interface, you may not realize that this is really
a newsgroup. You will get far more out of this resource if you learn to use
a newsreader. There are many good newsreaders for Windows, but you can use
Outlook Express (XP) or Windows Mail (Vista) since you already have it.
Here are some links to information about newsgroups:

About Usenet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ - Usenet FAQs from the Internet FAQ Archives
http://www.usenetmonster.com/infocenter/
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet - a brief explanation
of newsgroups

Outlook Express/Windows Mail as Newsreader:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/accessing_newsgrousp_with-windows_mail.htm

How to Post:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 - How to Ask a Question
http://users.tpg.com.au/bzyhjr/liszt.htm - How Not to Get Technical Help on
Usenet


http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups
microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is working
properly
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/munad.htm - how to munge email address
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting - crossposting
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting

Other Newsreaders for Windows:
http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php - Forte
http://www.mozilla.org - Thunderbird

Malke
 
As others have said, we cannot determine what you want/need because we do
not see the original post. Please post the message directly to the group
either through the Microsoft web interface or the NNTP interface.

For the later, click on the following link.

NEWS://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

That will open your newsreader, if one is installed, and set up the account
for reading. To post, you might have to set up an eMail account in the NNTP
client software. Malke has provided links to explain how to do that.
 
Frank said:
I have gone so far as to submit a technical suport request to Micrsoft.
They respond with the chkdisk, diskpart attempts to which I have already
attempted.
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Have no idea where your original thread is
but you can easily test by booting with a live, Linux cd

one that of course has read/write access to NTFS

(most any recent distro should work...but check the docs first. I
personally used a PCLinuxOS 2009 cd to write to an NTFS drive)


If you can write to the drive then you can at least sort out if the
problem is software related or if the drive is just plain defective.

I once had an ide drive that became read-only due to a data cable problem
 
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