(Msg. 25) Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 7:27 am
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?)
i have had this problem for some time now as well. i have an 80G hard
drive that was removed from a notebook and the hard drive was installed
in an enclosure. i would use the drive between two computers, sometimes
three: 1 vista home premium x64, 1 vista home premium x86, and 1 vista
business (mostly between the two vista home premium computers, as both
of those are mine). anyway, the hard drive would work with the notebook
(x86) and when i would attach it to the desktop (x64) i would get the
write protected error. i got it to work before by right clicking the
drive icon in my computer and going to the security tab. i would then
enable the permissions. then it would work fine.
strange thing happened this morning though--when i went to enable
permissions (because lo and behold, i got the write protection error
again this morning!), all of the permissions were enabled. so, i went to
device manager, selected the disk, and uninstalled it. after
uninstalling it, i detached the drive from my computer, waited a few
seconds, then reattached the drive. the computer had to reinstall the
driver software and everything worked fine--i was able to delete from
and copy to the drive with no problem.
(Msg. 26) Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:47 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?)
@Johan ALfort: thanks for your attention and suggestions but I don't
think that this is a problem of the hard disks themselves but a drivers
or windows vista problem... And yeah, I have admin account but the
problem seams to be some kind of deadlock or so... weirdo stuff?!
I just can approve to what mpcrsc562 describes:
the hard drives I use are protected by truecrypt so I have to mount
them by select a drive in truecrypt and then type in my password... so,
the (not really) funny thing is now: sometimes a drive is write
protected and I can't change the properties of the disk to make it
writeable and sometimes it just works very well and I can create, modify
and delete files...
(Msg. 27) Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:17 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?)
Hi, I have the same problem.
Suddenly, unable to create files or directories on my data-disk that's
in RAID 1.
Security-settings were OK but I even couldn't make changes to the
security-settings :confused:.
The only thing that changed since yesterday : a windows update that was
pending for more then a week.
So I did a system restore to yesterday and now the disk is writable
again.
I'm not sure which update causes this problem, but I will give you the
list of updates that were installed yesterday :
- Windows Vista
-------------------------------------------------------
- Cumulative Security Update for ActiveX Killbits for Windows Vista
for x64-based Systems (KB956391)
- Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista
for x64-based Systems (KB956390)
- Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB954211)
- Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB956841)
- Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB957095)
- Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 - October 2008
(KB890830)
- Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista for x64-based
Systems (KB955519)
- Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter for x64-based Systems
[October 2008] (KB905866)
- Office 2007 -------------------------------------------------------
- Security Update for 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB955936)
- Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (KB955470)
- Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter
(KB957258)
Could it be an update of this list that causes the write-protection?
(Msg. 28) Posted: Fri Oct 24, 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?)
Hi all. I found this thread thanks to Google. I've got two internal
harddrives, one 640GB WD SE16 (C and one 500GB Samsung T166 (D.
They're hooked up the AMD SB600 southbridge and I've got the AMD AHCI
driver version 3.1.1540.11. I've also got an external 500GB drive that I
only connect when performing backups or restoring data.
I was running XP 32-bit, then Vista 32-bit without issues. After having
switched to Vista 64-bit, my D drive will now randomly become write
protected. All the fixes I've tried so far only have a temporary effect.
The disk always eventually write protects itself again, sometimes within
minutes, sometimes after several days. This is crazy!
I don't know if this is a bug with Vista 64-bit or if the actual
upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit caused the issue. I've done the ownership
thing, the MBRFix, the diskpart bit etc. I've also checked for viruses.
(Msg. 29) Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:13 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?)
Today, I installed the pending updates again to see that they where the
cause of the problem.
But now seems everything OK..
Guess it wasn't an automatic update ..
(Msg. 30) Posted: Tue Oct 28, 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 think I've fixed the problem.
I tried all the AMD AHCI drivers I could find: 2.5.1540.35 and .39
(latest Asus driver I believe) both fail to keep the drive write
enabled, as does 3.1.1540.11 (SB7xx driver). Version 2.5.1540.43, which
for some reason is the latest SB600 driver available at AMD's own
homepage also fails. I did not try 3.1.1540.50 which is the latest SB7xx
driver, since it's not really meant for my SB600 southbridge.
However build 2.5.1540.48 available from the MSI K9A2 download page
seem to work. After installing them and rebooting, neither harddrive has
showed up as "Read Only" for days. I've got an Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe
mobo, but the AHCI driver works with any brand.
So in my case it wasn't a security or permissions problem, but rather
an AHCI driver problem. It seems most 64-bit versions of AMD's AHCI
drivers fool Vista into thinking the harddrive is physically write
protected. So if you've got an AMD board and experience this problem,
there's a possible solution.
(Msg. 31) Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:07 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?)
Hello Microsoft??????
Seems this issue is growing rapidly. It is rather annoying enough to rid
myself of vista 64bit entirely. An alternative OS other than MS is looking
tempting.
(Msg. 32) Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 4:19 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?)
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:07:02 -0800, 51n8L45teR
<51n8L45teR RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hello Microsoft??????
>
>Seems this issue is growing rapidly. It is rather annoying enough to rid
>myself of vista 64bit entirely. An alternative OS other than MS is looking
>tempting.
>
>Fix it FFS!
This is a P2P group, bozo. It's not a group that is officially
monitored by MS.
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