Open Question: How do I remove "The write protected" from a hard drive?
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William1... Member since:May 05, 2006Total points:82 (Level 1)How do I remove "The write protected" from a hard drive? I am using Windows 7 Professional. My OS is on "C" drive and I am using an external drive, which is partitioned into 4 drives, with one of the drives containing some of my music. If I want to make a CD from the drive that contains my music, I don't have any problem. If I want to add some more music to another one of my external partitioned hard drives, it is coming back as "Write protected". I don't think I did it, does my system do it automatically? How can I add my music to this external drive other that the partition that already has music on it? It is partitioned into 4 sections. Like I said it is an external hard drive set up with USB. ThanksAnswer Question by Steven Member since:November 26, 2009Total points:3,699 (Level 4)Windows 7 write protects a lot of files automatically and some times you have to take ownership of those files and change the permissions. Files can be write protected from their owner until you change the permissions. Right click the file object, properties, security tab.
If you copy files from a CD, the CD read only status is preserved so you have to manually change the permissions.
It is also possible the hard drive write protect jumper (hardware) has write protected the entire drive. If you are using a file with one program, it will be write protect against another program making changes until the first program releases it, so be sure the program you are running is the only one running.
William1... Member since:May 05, 2006Total points:82 (Level 1)How do I remove "The write protected" from a hard drive? I am using Windows 7 Professional. My OS is on "C" drive and I am using an external drive, which is partitioned into 4 drives, with one of the drives containing some of my music. If I want to make a CD from the drive that contains my music, I don't have any problem. If I want to add some more music to another one of my external partitioned hard drives, it is coming back as "Write protected". I don't think I did it, does my system do it automatically? How can I add my music to this external drive other that the partition that already has music on it? It is partitioned into 4 sections. Like I said it is an external hard drive set up with USB. ThanksAnswer Question by Steven Member since:November 26, 2009Total points:3,699 (Level 4)Windows 7 write protects a lot of files automatically and some times you have to take ownership of those files and change the permissions. Files can be write protected from their owner until you change the permissions. Right click the file object, properties, security tab.If you copy files from a CD, the CD read only status is preserved so you have to manually change the permissions.
It is also possible the hard drive write protect jumper (hardware) has write protected the entire drive. If you are using a file with one program, it will be write protect against another program making changes until the first program releases it, so be sure the program you are running is the only one running.
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