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Old July 22nd 07, 07:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Michael Gerbasio
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Default USB Hard Drive Write Protect Error

Hi,
I'm running Vista x64 on a T61 notebook. I have a Western Digital Passport
usb hard drive. I need to copy files larger than allowed by FAT32 so using
my WinXP Pro desktop I shrunk the existing FAT32 partition, created a new
partition, formatted it as NTFS.

Using any WinXP PC, I have no problems accessing the NTFS partition on the
hard drive. However, using Vista, I can read the partition, but not write to
it. When I try to write to the NTFS partition, I get an error saying the
drive is write protected. Any idea how I can fix this problem? Thanks.

Regards-Michael G.