(Msg. 9) Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:36 pm
Post subject: Re: Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected" [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: microsoft>public>windows>vista>hardware_devices (more info?)
"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. >
> 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.
(Msg. 10) Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:32 am
Post subject: Re: Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected" [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
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
>
(Msg. 11) Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:32 pm
Post subject: Re: Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected" [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
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...
(Msg. 12) Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:09 am
Post subject: Re: Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected" [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
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?
(Msg. 13) Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:51 pm
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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.
(Msg. 14) Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:51 am
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"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.
(Msg. 15) Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:40 pm
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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.
(Msg. 16) Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 4:52 am
Post subject: Re: Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected" [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
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. :(
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