I know that this post is going to be out of my acustommed subjects but I’ve been struggling with google for several hours since I found a valid solution. As I don’t want you to waste all the time I wasted finding this issue, I decided to share this piece of “wisdom” with all of you.
Maybe, suddenly, your external usb hard disk has become write protected and you’re not able to change any file or add anything to your beloved external hard drive. If you try to go to the properties of your hard drive and try to add total control permissions you will get the “disk is write protected message” again and again.
Well, the solution to this headache:
1 – Go to Start > Run and Type CMD
2 – Then type DiskPart
3 – Now you type list volume. This will list all your hard drives. Look at the volume number of the one which is driving you crazy and remember it.
4 – Type select volume followed by the volume number you were retaining into your memory.
5 – Finally, type attributes disk clear readonly and this should do the trick!
Please help me
tried both these
1. Open a Command prompt by clicking Start, typing command, and clicking Command Prompt.
2. Type diskpart and press Enter.
3. Type list volume and press Enter.
4. Type select volume #, where # is the number of the drive that’s giving you the “write-
protected” error. In my case, I ended up typing select volume 3.
5. Type attributes disk clear readonly and press Enter.
6. Type exit and press Enter.
1. Run & type there regedit & than hit enter button on run window.
2. A new window of Registry Editor will open & you will see folder of HKEY_CURRENT_USER
3. Press on SYSTEM than press on CurrentControlSet & than press Control !
4. Create a new key called StorageDevicePolicies than you will have to click on Control,
5. select New -> Key and type in StorageDevicePolicies !
6. Now Create a DWORD called WriteProtect under StorageDevicePolicies and set the value to 0.
thank you. this worked. i took the drive out of the enclosure and plugged it up internally via sata. the drive didnt recognize. i took it out and placed it back into its enclosure and it was not seen anymore. i plugged it up to a different pc and no luck, i plugged it back up to my usb enclosure again and it said drive needed to be formatted but when i tried it said disk is write protected. go figure. at least nnow i can access it and try to recover files. thanks