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Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
Hi, for me the problem reappeared a few days after I had updated my SATA/RAID controller drivers. So that wasn't it. Instead I connected the drive onto a different SATA controller (that was about a week ago), and it* seems *as if that has solved it for me. No idea why, though... -- jukka77 |
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Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
I was having this same issue when I was using Windows XP x64 and I'm having it now with Windows Vista Ultimate x64. I have six internal hard drives and seven external hard drives and it seems like in my testing that the last one or two drives that show up in the OS are the ones that invariably come up write-protected. I'm pretty sure its a 64-bit bug. Does anyone have a solution yet? I'm seriously considering writing a script to run on login that will automatically remove the write protection. This is driving me insane not to mention causing me to have to unplug and replug my drives unnecessarily to get them usable again. Is Microsoft listening? Hello, is this thin on? -- psychosmurf Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
If you have drives that are encrypted with PGP and the show up write-protected; don't try the diskpart trick. it'll only make the drive completely unmountable. I found that out the hard way; was able to recover the data but it cost me two days of decryption. -- psychosmurf Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
"psychosmurf" wrote: If you have drives that are encrypted with PGP and the show up write-protected; don't try the diskpart trick. it'll only make the drive completely unmountable. I found that out the hard way; was able to recover the data but it cost me two days of decryption. -- psychosmurf Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com I have exact same problem with Vista x64 Ultimate but it only occurs in those hard disk partitions wich i have partitioned with vistas own disk management, my other hard disk is partittioned with winxp disk management and does not have that problem. |
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Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
Jape;949598 Wrote: I have exact same problem with Vista x64 Ultimate but it only occurs in those hard disk partitions wich i have partitioned with vistas own disk management, my other hard disk is partittioned with winxp disk management and does not have that problem. That's very interesting. It almost seems like this is occurring randomly to many different people with different configurations. All of my drives that are hitting this were partitioned and formatted in Windows XP and are external. The only drive I have that was created by Vista is the drive Vista is installed on; all the rest are leftovers from my XP x64 days, which of course had exactly the same problem. I really hope they fix this soon; its so frustrating not being able to use one or two (and yesterday is was three) hard drives because they are showing write-protected after every single reboot and not being able to encrypt the data on the drive for fear of losing it at the next reboot. -- psychosmurf Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
I'm getting the same issue with an internal HD that I use for data storage. There must be some kind of definitive fix for this. -- rumjungle |
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Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
Basicly what I did with my 3 external drives was to go to: This computer Locate the drive Right click - Properties Security In the lower right, choose Advanced Lower Left, choose Edit Now here was my problem. Having put the files there on one computer that crashed alot then moving it to my new computer, I had some weird owerships and inheritatits from the old computer. What I basicly did, was to remove ALL of the permissions then adding My user name and, System, and Administrator. You can also add Users and Authenticated Users (look up the names on your main drive that always works). It took a while for the disk to set the permissions to all folders/subfolders and so on, but now everything works like a charm. Could be worth a try. PS. Also works after reboot -- Johan ALfort ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Johan ALfort's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/johan-alfort.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...ces/961967.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
Thanks, Johan, I'll give this a try and see what happens. I hope something works as this is driving me nuts. -- psychosmurf Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
YIKES!! I think you might have found the solution, Johan. It took me a good five hours to reset the security on all my files but I've rebooted three times now and still no read-only drives. I still want to get a few more reboots in before I get to optimistic but so far things look great!!!! -- psychosmurf Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
Now Vista seems to be write protecting the media on whims. I haven't rebooted in four days and a drive that was fine yesterday is now write-protected. What a pain in the ass. MICROSOFT ARE YOU THERE!?!?!?! HELLLLLLLO THIS IS A PROBLEM, PLEASE FIX IT! -- psychosmurf Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |