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

[RobtheSwede]

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.. 🙁

 

[RobtheSwede]

So that was the method that finally worked! Once again, thanks guys! And have a wonderful day!

 

[COLGeek]

This is a great community with members always willing to help. Come back any time you need assistance. Well done working through the solution.

 

[cryoburner]

So.. what do you guys think caused this? One of these recovery programs just locked down my SSD without telling me? (because it sure didn't tell me anything of that kind.)

I imagine this was likely a feature of one of the recovery programs you used, and it's probable that whichever utility locked it down may also include the ability to unlock it. The reason you might want a drive put into read-only mode when recovering files from it is that any writes to the drive could potentially overwrite the deleted files that you are trying to recover. So you ideally don't want the operating system or other software writing anything to the drive until you have your files back.