Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
Hi all, This seems to be a new development, and I'm stumped. I've got three internal hard drives- one housing Vista Ultimate x64, one housing Ubuntu 8.04 x64, and one being used for storage for both OS's. Up until recently they've cooperated nicely. Now, the storage drive (drive E:\) will not let me write to it. I cannot rename, delete, cut, or write any new files to any part of that drive. That's troublesome, since that's where I send all of my downloads to! Even earlier in this session of windows it was working nicely, I was able to download a torrent of the recent Ubuntu 8.04 release (legal and distributed from ubuntu.com). I started a session of Assassin's Creed (a game), and now that I've quit that, I cannot write to the drive. Specifically, the error is: "The disk is write protected. Remove the write protection or use another disk." I've tried changing the security settings to allow USERS, or even just Administrators, full control of the drive, to no avail. I cannot modify the security settings. When I try, I get: "An error occurred while applying security information to E:\xyzpath\123filename The media is write protected." I can assure you that I've not enabled any type of write protection. Any ideas? I'd really like to have this working again as otherwise I'm extremely limited on storage space. Thanks in advance! Bogus -- bogus83 |
Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
Hi again. Sorry to post a question and then answer it myself, but I saw the question come up in a few other places and thought I'd post the solution I found here, in case anyone else came looking. Checkdisk did not do the trick. I had to use Diskpart. From a cmd prompt, I ran "diskpart". I selected the drive, and then the volume, then ran "Attributes volume clear readonly". Immediately I was able to set security permissions and am currently downloading my new Ubuntu disc at 900kb/s. :D Note: I have not yet rebooted, so I'm not sure if this solution will persist, or if the problem will randomly occur again. I am using SP1 also, in case anyone is interested. -- bogus83 |
Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
Hi all. In case anyone was curious, it DID happen again, totally at random. Not sure what's causing it, but the same fix as before worked again. -- bogus83 |
Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
Same deal here. Starting to bother me big time. I downloaded Ubuntu 8.04 release but didn't do anything with it? Just the ISO. -- jaxstraww |
Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
"jaxstraww" wrote: Same deal here. Starting to bother me big time. I downloaded Ubuntu 8.04 release but didn't do anything with it? Just the ISO. -- jaxstraww I'm also having this problem. I have a partition on my hard drive that I can no longer set permissions for. How do I fix this? |
Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
I'm not sure if this will help, but I found this thread while I was searching for a solution to the "write-protected" issue, and now that it seems to be fixed I figured I'd let you know how I worked it out. The drive that gave me the message was a USB 500Gb external which I moved from my old XP box when I installed Vista HPx64 on a brand new machine. After a lot of Googling, I tried 'the diskpart method bogus83 suggested' (http://forums.techarena.in/showpost....6&postcount=2). It seemed to work, but just a couple of seconds later, my antivirus ('Avira AntiVir' (http://www.free-av.de/en/download/1/...tivirus.ht ml) -- free and excellent) popped up a warning that it had found a boot sector virus in that drive called 'Sinowal.A' (http://blogs.technet.com/antimalware...a-report.aspx). I told it to delete the virus, but it couldn't and that's when *the AV program write-protected the drive*. Aha! I tried to get rid of the virus by following the instructions at 'this Microsoft site' (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392) and it probably would have worked except that those tools only fix the MBR on the system drive which has Vista -- not on any other drives. Then I found this tool, 'MBRFix' (http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm) which is a 98Kb file that runs from the command line. So here's how I did it: - Download *MBRFix.exe* to your User folder - Boot the computer into a fresh session - Go to -Start | All Programs | Accessories- - Right-click on *Command Prompt* - Choose -"Run as administrator"- - Choose -"Allow"- from the UAC popup box (if you haven't turned it off) - At the *C:\Users\{your name}\* prompt, type *MBRFix /drive {drive number} fixmbr /yes* - Repeat the command for however many drives are infected/write protected - Restart and check your antivirus or see if you are still unable to write to the drive If it was the virus, you should allow your anti-virus program and a good spyware program or two to run through a full system scan. It's been a couple of days, and (fingers crossed) it seems to be fixed! Hope this helps someone. -- evano ------------------------------------------------------------------------ evano's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?u=51971 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=961967 http://forums.techarena.in |
Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
Hi, same problem here... I performed the "diskpart" solution from bogus83, but after the restart, grub did not get past stage 1.5 (seems to be in a loop, as no error message). Anyone an idea of what has gone wrong? I did run a virus-check (Norton 360) before restarting, and no problems were found. My configuration is: Ubuntu 8.04 on 250GB Maxtor (grub installed here) Vista Ultimate X64 on (Software) Raid 0 (2 x WD Raptor 37GB) Asus P5B Deluxe Wi-Fi Intel E6600 -- jukka77 |
Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
I (think) I have solved my issue: after having restored my MBR using the Vista DVD, I updated the jmicron (SATA/RAID controller drivers), and so far have not seen the problem return. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that that was the cause... -- jukka77 |
Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
"bogus83" wrote:
Hi again. Sorry to post a question and then answer it myself, but I saw the question come up in a few other places and thought I'd post the solution I found here, in case anyone else came looking. Checkdisk did not do the trick. I had to use Diskpart. From a cmd prompt, I ran "diskpart". I selected the drive, and then the volume, then ran "Attributes volume clear readonly". Immediately I was able to set security permissions and am currently downloading my new Ubuntu disc at 900kb/s. :D Note: I have not yet rebooted, so I'm not sure if this solution will persist, or if the problem will randomly occur again. I am using SP1 also, in case anyone is interested. -- bogus83 Thanks to "bogus83" for sharing the solution using diskpart. Worked like a charm. On my Vista x64 machine the problem occured after I tried to copy all files from a drive named "Medien 1" to a folder, also named "Medien 1", on a different drive. I received an error, telling me something along the lines of "the target folder is a subfolder of the source folder". After shaking my head in resignation I renamed the target folder and tried again. Seeing that the process would take longer than expected, I canceled the operation, leaving the task for the following day. When I started my computer the next day to try again, I received the mentioned error message. Coincidence? Maybe. Annoying? Definitely! |
Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"
I have similar issue. 2 harddrives, Vista 64 is on 2nd, Windows XP on 1st.
And No any RAID, also updated drivers. Nothing helps - it occurs time ti time, and reboot always helps. I searched with google, it turned out that many people complain about it and they all have different configuration, so there is no any pattern (except 2 or more HDs). So it is Vista bug and any remedy is temporary until MS fix it... "jukka77" wrote: I (think) I have solved my issue: after having restored my MBR using the Vista DVD, I updated the jmicron (SATA/RAID controller drivers), and so far have not seen the problem return. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that that was the cause... -- jukka77 |
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