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re: Write Protection Friday, April 11, 2008 at 8:56 am Posted by Deb (1285 messages posted) Did you by any chance unplug the drive without using the "safely remove hardware" icon in the taskbar? If so, some or all of your files may be corrupt. Read this: http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/08/fix-format-usb-flash-drives/ On Friday, April 11, 2008 at 7:48 am, DON wrote: >my external usb hard drive has somehow developed write protection.....!this would >be on drive F..I have ownership on C drive but unable to do anything except read >on F.as cannot get permission due to write protection..anyone out there know how >to fix this.! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Write Protection Friday, April 11, 2008 at 9:14 am Posted by DON (5 messages posted) Thx for the fast reply......!my usb drive could have came unplugged,however i thought this was a pnp device.anyway don't know how a storage hard drive can become write protected as i never initiated this action.....i cannot even format the drive...!this drive was originally formatted on an xp os (ntsf)now using it with my vista os,,,but i have had vista since 1/07 and never had a problem till recently...what i need is to disable write protection on drive f...note...there are no tabs or switches on this seagate hard drive!thx agn. On Friday, April 11, 2008 at 7:48 am, DON wrote: >my external usb hard drive has somehow developed write protection.....!this would >be on drive F..I have ownership on C drive but unable to do anything except read >on F.as cannot get permission due to write protection..anyone out there know how >to fix this.! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Write Protection Friday, April 11, 2008 at 11:17 am Posted by Deb (1285 messages posted) Can you get into the Properties of the drive? On Friday, April 11, 2008 at 9:14 am, DON wrote: >Thx for the fast reply......!my usb drive could have came unplugged,however i thought >this was a pnp device.anyway don't know how a storage hard drive can become write >protected as i never initiated this action.....i cannot even format the drive...!this >drive was originally formatted on an xp os (ntsf)now using it with my vista os,,,but >i have had vista since 1/07 and never had a problem till recently...what i need is >to disable write protection on drive f...note...there are no tabs or switches on >this seagate hard drive!thx agn. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Write Protection Friday, April 11, 2008 at 11:17 am Posted by John Liebson (627 messages posted) Have you tried the Seagate site, especially the knowledge base? http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/ On Friday, April 11, 2008 at 9:14 am, DON wrote: >Thx for the fast reply......!my usb drive could have came unplugged,however i thought >this was a pnp device.anyway don't know how a storage hard drive can become write >protected as i never initiated this action.....i cannot even format the drive...!this >drive was originally formatted on an xp os (ntsf)now using it with my vista os,,,but >i have had vista since 1/07 and never had a problem till recently...what i need is >to disable write protection on drive f...note...there are no tabs or switches on >this seagate hard drive!thx agn. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Write Protection Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 8:53 pm Posted by Charlie Hadden (854 messages posted) Also look to see if there is a very small MICRO switch on the drive itself. I have three different brands and they all have Lock Switch on them. They are easy to overlook. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Write Protection Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 9:02 pm Posted by DON (5 messages posted) THX for the reply,i've search all over the USB external drive & only switches or plugins are power switch,USB plugin,& an on/off switch....also went to Seagate to see if they could help.but they didn't have any info regarding write protection for there hard drives.it seems something happened when i lost some data on my C drive & reloaded my backup from the F drive to get back the data.I still don't understand how a hard drive can get write protected? On Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 8:53 pm, Charlie Hadden wrote: > >Also look to see if there is a very small MICRO switch on the drive itself. I have >three different brands and they all have Lock Switch on them. They are easy to overlook. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Write Protection Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 2:35 pm Posted by DON (5 messages posted) THX,to all who responded,i have finally found the answer to removing write protection....!the link will show xp but works for vista..........http://www.accessdata.com/media/en_US/print/papers/wp.USB_Write_Protect.en_us.pdf............. its a pdf file so you will need an adobe reader.also its a registry modification so make sure you do a restore point 1st.it's simple & works,my F drive is now free from write protection. On Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 9:02 pm, DON wrote: > >THX for the reply,i've search all over the USB external drive & only switches or >plugins are power switch,USB plugin,& an on/off switch....also went to Seagate to >see if they could help.but they didn't have any info regarding write protection for >there hard drives.it seems something happened when i lost some data on my C drive >& reloaded my backup from the F drive to get back the data.I still don't understand >how a hard drive can get write protected? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Write Protection Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 3:09 pm Posted by Charlie Hadden (854 messages posted) WELL!I thank you for educating me. Especially when I though I was answering another question and ended up giving you bad info for your problem. I will study this info. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Write Protection Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 8:07 pm Posted by Peter David (1 messages posted) Drive C has write protect. How do I remove it ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Write Protection Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 4:21 am Posted by DON (5 messages posted) TRY THIS LINK! http://www.accessdata.com/media/en_US/print/papers/wp.USB_Write_Protect.en_us.pdf On Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 8:07 pm, Peter David wrote: >Drive C has write protect. How do I remove it ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum