Restart to "Disk Read Error Occured" Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart.

[Isack]

My cousin restarted to this message on his PC, so we investigated on the internet and found a solution to pop in the Windows(8) install disc and go to "Repair Windows". After that, we went to the command prompt and typed many different types of "chkdsk". We tried "chkdsk C: f/", "chkdsk", "chkdsk C: /f /r /x" etc... All of these resulted in a message saying "Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write protected." We are both clueless as to what to do from here. Any help is much appreciated!

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Hey there, Isack!

This is very weird, usually this command is the one that solves the write-protected issue.
While at the CMD you could also try using diskpart to change the attributes. Try these commands:
diskpart
list volume
select volume X (where X is the problematic volume)
attributes disk clear readonly
attributes volume clear readonly

Hope this works! Keep me posted!
SuperSoph_WD

 

[Isack]

Hey there, Isack!

This is very weird, usually this command is the one that solves the write-protected issue.
While at the CMD you could also try using diskpart to change the attributes. Try these commands:
diskpart
list volume
select volume X (where X is the problematic volume)
attributes disk clear readonly
attributes volume clear readonly

Hope this works! Keep me posted!
SuperSoph_WD

Hello and thank you for the quick reply. Typing "diskpart" had a result, so we went on to the next command. We typed "list volume" and it showed us 1 volume called "Volume 0". We tried "select volume 0" and it said "Volume 0 is the selected volume". We then typed "attributes disk clear readonly" and it said "There is no disk selected. Select a disk and try again."
We had no idea what to do after this, so we resorted to the forums. Thanks again and any help is very appreciated.

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Hello and thank you for the quick reply. Typing "diskpart" had a result, so we went on to the next command. We typed "list volume" and it showed us 1 volume called "Volume 0". We tried "select volume 0" and it said "Volume 0 is the selected volume". We then typed "attributes disk clear readonly" and it said "There is no disk selected. Select a disk and try again."
We had no idea what to do after this, so we resorted to the forums. Thanks again and any help is very appreciated.

Oh, I see. Okay, let's attempt listing the partitions as well, maybe that will make it possible to remove the Read-only:
diskpart
list volume
select volume X (where X is the problematic volume)
list part (then all the partitions should list as well)
select part Y (where Y is the partition causing issues)
attributes disk clear readonly
attributes volume clear readonly
If it still doesn't work, you can try the suggested solution to the issue here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2011/06/02/my-disk-is-read-only-help.aspx

Let me know how it goes!
SuperSoph_WD

 

[Isack]

Hello and thank you for the quick reply. Typing "diskpart" had a result, so we went on to the next command. We typed "list volume" and it showed us 1 volume called "Volume 0". We tried "select volume 0" and it said "Volume 0 is the selected volume". We then typed "attributes disk clear readonly" and it said "There is no disk selected. Select a disk and try again."
We had no idea what to do after this, so we resorted to the forums. Thanks again and any help is very appreciated.

Oh, I see. Okay, let's attempt listing the partitions as well, maybe that will make it possible to remove the Read-only:
diskpart
list volume
select volume X (where X is the problematic volume)
list part (then all the partitions should list as well)
select part Y (where Y is the partition causing issues)
attributes disk clear readonly
attributes volume clear readonly
If it still doesn't work, you can try the suggested solution to the issue here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2011/06/02/my-disk-is-read-only-help.aspx

Let me know how it goes!
SuperSoph_WD

We got down to "list part" and it said that we need to select a disk to list partitions. We tried some other commands of our guessing, but that didn't work.