This instruction or tutorial is not from me. I got it in another site. This is very helpful when I cannot transfer anything to or from my external hard drive. It always says 'write protected'.
"During a
bit of housecleaning today, I uncovered an old USB hard drive I hadn't used in
a couple years. I decided to plug it in, check the contents, and see if it
contained anything I still needed.
As it
turned out, the drive was filled with a bunch of old, unwanted files. Great, I
thought, I'll just delete them and put the drive back into use for other
things.
Just one
problem: when I tried to erase the files, Windows popped up an error message
about the drive being write-protected. Uh, okay. Not sure why that would be, but
whatever. Guess I'll just go ahead and format the drive. That'll clear
everything out.
Whoops!
Same error. Oh, Windows, you baffling, unpredictable, endlessly annoying
operating system, you. (FYI, I'm running Windows 7 64-bit. The drive was most
likely formatted using a 32-bit version of Windows XP. Maybe that had something
to do with it.)
I spent
some time investigating varies fixes for this problem, which can affect any
kind of drive, and landed on the following:
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.
That's
it! Now you should have full write access to the problem drive. This worked for
me; let me know if you have different results."
Source:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/245174/restore_access_to_a_write_protected_hard_drive.html
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