[catalin]

I've really goingcrazy every time I attack this issue and I simply haven't been able to figure this crap out. Can someone suggest something?

Basically what's happening is that regardless of whatever kind of USB device that I connect to this headache of a machine I can't format, write or delete anything on it. I keep getting an error:

"The disk is write-protected.

Remove the write-protection or use another disk."

I've a so-called registry fix and it does nothing... Seen many other people posting the same issue but still no fix.

Can anyone help?? please... :QQ:

[mos_skeeto]

By any chance were these drives formatted on a Mac?

If not I googled this. Not sure if it will work but use at your discretion (I did find it on a random forum)

If you can access the files, you may be facing a lack of permission to do more than that. You can check the permission level and change it to see if that give you full access to the drive.

Go to Computer
Right click your thumb drive
Click on Properties
Click the Security tab
Select Everyone and click the Edit button in the dialoge box
In the Allow column, check the Full Control box
Click Apply and OK

This should ensure that Access Control is ruled out as the souce of the Write Protected situation.

OR -

Use DiskPart Open a command prompt window for the windows version you are using

In the command prompt type diskpart
Type list volume to identify the thumb drives volume #.
Type select volume # where # is your thumb drives # and press enter.
Type attributes disk clear readonly press enter. You should get text back saying Disk attributes cleared successfully

Remove the thumb drive, then reinsert into USB.

Check the drive in question, you should now be able to access the disk with full permissions.

[MarcusLaw]

when you say "regardless of whatever kind of USB device" tht puzzles me.

I've seen this problem encounter on like those SD cards and stuff.... if your only trying that, theres a switch on the card it self, push it the other way.

if that isn't it... im not too 100% sure then. Could be something in your registry. those reg fixes arn't the best solutions lol.

But uh i found this on google,

1.) insert your usb storage device
2.) open my computer
3.) right click your device and click eject
4.) take out your usb device and reinsert it
5.) try writing stuff onto the drive (just drag like a random file onto it)
6.) if doesnt work... do steps 1-5 again

^ apparently it works and ppl have done it multiple times just to get it to work lol

theres also a registry thing you can do to fix it. (i googled it)

1.) start
2.) type in run and open it
3.) type in regedit (DO NOT MESS WITH THE NUMBERS AND STUFF INSIDE OF THIS!!)
4.) navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrrentControlSet\Contr ol\StroageDevicePolicies
(this is a picture reference incase you do not know how) http://puu.sh/1VOWJ and on the side look for storage device policies then click it
5.) on the right hand window there should b "WriteProtect". double click the name
6.) a window should pop up. in the box put in the value "0"

press ok and close everything

try now (if it doesnt work, reboot your computer then try again.)

try those :)

[catalin]

Thanks guys, well basically kind of usb storage device. Hard drive, usb stick, blackberry... No matter what I plugged in, it just wouldn't let me write or delete on it. I tried the permissions but even then, same disk protect error. I tried the registry change and that didn't do anything either.

I did get it working eventually but still not sure which solution it was. I found that there three minor Vista updates that weren't loaded. But I also downloaded a small program that unprotected the usb connections... Works again.
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