Write protection on all USB drives

[westthomas]

Hi everyone,

Since I received my new Sony Vaio SVE1711C5E I have been unable to write to USB drives.

All of my other machines work with all of these USB's but my new laptop gets the message "disk write protecte- remove write protection".

I have narrowed it down to being the laptop which is at fault and I can't for the life of me work out how to fix it.

I am very competent when it comes to using a computer so I have tried more than the basic few steps.

If anybody else has experienced this or knows how I could fix it I will appreciate it greatly!

Thanks,

Tom

[rich912]

Hi Tom,

Try the following…

1. Click Start > All Programs > Accessories > Right click CMD and select ‘Run as Administrator’ – this may not apply depending on operating system – otherwise just open CMD.

2. Type diskpart and press enter.

3. Type list volume and press enter.

4. Type select volume #, where # is the number of the drive that's giving you the write-protected error.

5. Type attributes disk clear readonly and then press enter.

6. Type exit and press enter.

Rich