[SOLVED] Have I ruined my new SSD? I'm freaking out.. :(

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I have a Seagate Firecuda 530 NVMe SSD Gen 4 2TB that is not even half a year old that I'm experiencing a scary problem with. I've done a windows drive test thing and it says the drive is ok, yet, the drive is now for some reason in read only mode. So I cannot delete any files from the drive or move them. This started today after i tried two different file recovery programs in (failed..) attempts to recover a video file I had accidentally deleted.

So it must have something to to with this as the drive is otherwise fine and I haven't had any problems with it. What I'm afraid of now is if these stupid recovery programs have somehow ruined my drive. Why did they lock up my drive like this? They didn't warn me about that as I was trying them out.

If I rightclick on the drive and go to properties and Security, it says under "Authenticated Users" that I do not have "Full Control" of the drive. Under System, it says "Full Control", under Administrators "Full Control" also, but under "Users" it doesn't.

When I try to put back "Full Control" it gives me a weird error message that reads like this:

An error occured while applying security
information to:

Z:\100 Run All Dark Magic.tmdx

The Media is write protected

Now.. that kinda terrifies me, because
I have no idea what that means, I have no
such directory on my hard drive. What does
it mean? 🙁

Any help appreciated as I'm pretty scared at this point.. 🙁
 
Solution
zinkles
Alright, new method. open the CMD window as before and put in the following commands respectively. (data may be lost, so since its read only, copy the data in it to somewhere else)
  • diskpart
  • list disk
  • sel disk <your disk with the problem's number>
  • attributes disk clear readonly
*no high hopes in this working, but worth a shot*
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I just don't understand how using these Recovery programs could cause this mess.. yet they (at least one of them) must be the culprit as this issue literally cropped up minutes after finishing using them.. 🙁
(And yep; I have uninstalled them all now..)
 
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Try running chkdisk if you haven't already.

chkdsk Z: /f & chkdsk Z: /r

Also, recovery programs, them and many other disk utility software that claim to recover data and repair stuff and make backups usually mess things up.
 
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@zinkles
I had no idea recovery programs were risky business; but duly noted now, thank you. Will probably never use one again after this disaster. Especially frustrating since not only did they NOT recover my file, they messed up my computer on top of it.

I will try those things out.
 
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RobtheSwede said:
@zinkles
I had no idea recovery programs were risky business; but duly noted now, thank you. Will probably never use one again after this disaster. Especially frustrating since not only did they NOT recover my file, they messed up my computer on top of it.

I will try those things out.
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not to misunderstand me, recovery software is great, helpful in a lot of cases, but not even the creators of the app take any responsibility or guarantee anything. i used to use them, now i don't after i got let down a couple times by those.

may i also ask you what purpose were you using the drive for? heavy reads/writes?

As seen in the screenshot you attached, it says "read only" in the drive, which means its not a software thing done by windows, its by the SSD itself. Its probably protecting its existing data and not allowing modification because its 1) reached its max read write capacity 2) a SMART value has been triggered.

you did try proprietary software, though what you should try is reading the SMART values raw. Download a software such as CrystalDiskInfo and attach a screenshot.
 
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Alright, new method. open the CMD window as before and put in the following commands respectively. (data may be lost, so since its read only, copy the data in it to somewhere else)
  • diskpart
  • list disk
  • sel disk <your disk with the problem's number>
  • attributes disk clear readonly
*no high hopes in this working, but worth a shot*
 
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Solution
Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.3636

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: ADMINRG-AJ0VRIK

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 465 GB 1024 KB *
Disk 1 Online 5589 GB 1024 KB *
Disk 2 Online 931 GB 1024 KB *
Disk 3 Online 465 GB 1024 KB *
Disk 4 Online 1863 GB 1024 KB *

DISKPART> select disk 4

Disk 4 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> attributes disk clear readonly

Disk attributes cleared successfully.

Thank Goodness! It Worked!!!!!! I was literally terrified out of my wits here with this!! Thanks guys so much for all the help! I love this forum! It's the only tech forum I ever post on when I have some serious problem because it's the only one I ever get any help from! You guys are the best!!!
 
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Method 1. Remove write protection from SSD using CMD​


If your SSD has been set to be read-only in Diskpart accidentally, you can disable it for the SSD using CMD. Here are the steps below.


Step 1. Press "Win+R" to open Run dialogue and type "CMD" press "Enter" to open Diskpart.


Step 2. Type "list disk" and hit Enter to get information of every disk.


Step 3. Type "select disk n" and press "Enter" ("n" is the number of your SSD drive on your computer).


Step 4. Type "attributes disk clear readonly" and hit "Enter".


Open Diskpart


Then you can try to access the SSD to see if the "SSD write-protected" issue is solved.
 
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