Windows 7 external hard drive read only2/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, when I check the attributes on all of my external drives-a 2GB Kingston Data Traveler, a 160GB Western Digital Passport, and a 1TB Western Digital Passport SE-they all show "no" under readonly but they're all still write protected. KeyboardNinja: I'd already tried the ideas at the links you provided, but I tried them again. Any ideas anyone? Literally, running Windows 7, within minutes of plugging in an otherwise not write protected USB external hard drive it becomes write protected. Honestly, as far as I know I've tried everything that over ten (10) hours of Googling could find me. I've used the command prompt to check volume/disk attributes for the external drives and all of them are readonly clear. I've checked the registry entry involving "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies" and it's as it should be. My problem is that any external hard drive I use while booted into my Win 7 OS becomes write protected within a few minutes of installation however, the same drive is fully usable-ie, not write protected-if used while booted into my XP Pro OS. ![]() I've a dual boot configuration, XP Professional and Windows 7, where the 2 partitions/OS's are independent by use of a third-party (non-Windows) boot manager. Hello, and as always thank you to anyone willing to help. ![]()
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