One of the drive is write-protected??!!!!

[HpiBmx Jackson]

Hi guys!
I've added my second hard disk and there are 3 drives, one of them showing this error and i thought it would be great if i could just get help from you guys,
It's says this disk is write-protected.
remove the write-protection or use another disk.
thanks in advance.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey HpiBmx Jackson. You could try this:
Run CMD as administrator then write the following commands and press "enter" after each one.
1. diskpart
2. list disk
3. select disk x (where x is the number of your drive)
4. attributes disk clear readonly
5. close Command Prompt when the process completes.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

 

[HpiBmx Jackson]

Hey boogieman,
I did what you said but i won't get this number 4 🙁

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey boogieman,
I did what you said but i won't get this number 4 🙁

What does it say? What OS are you using?
Try it this way:
1. diskpart
2. list volume
3. select volume X (make sure that you type the correct number (instead of "X") for the drive you need to remove the write protection from)
4. attributes disk clear readonly
5. close Command Prompt when the process completes.

 

[HpiBmx Jackson]

I'm using windows xp for now before this i had my win 8 but didn't have this error, but since i changed like a week ago yea I'm getting for one of my tree drives,,
and I'm typing that in cmd but i don't see any attributes disk clear.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey again. You don't have to see it, it is not an option you can select. This is the command you have to type in. Press "enter" after each step. When you type the third step, press "enter" and then for the 4th step type "attributes disk clear readonly" (without the quotations) and press "enter" again.

Hope that helps.

 

[HpiBmx Jackson]

it didn't do anything leave it dude, thanks.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Sorry that didn't do the trick. You can try through the Registry Editor as well.
1. Open up the Registry Editor (click on the Start button, then click Run and then type regedit and press "enter")
2. Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control Right click on control and create new key. Name it as StorageDevicePolicies. Now click on StorageDevicePolicies and in right side pan right click and select create new DWORD and name it as WriteProtect. Double click on it and set its value to 0.