external hard drive write protected?

bluedoo

bluedoo

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my external drive comes up write protected if i try to save anything to it
not very handy

it is a WD my book 500GB

if i unplug the usb and reconnect it sometimes becomes ok
any ideas?

thanks
 
Would this be running under Vista x64 by chance ?

I randomly get the same issue with my 2 Lacie Quadra's 500gb esata drives a reboot clears the problem

Anyone have any ideas ?
 
I am running under a administrator account for my main account

The owners of the files are administrator full control etc

other permissions are Authenticated users which have everything apart from full control and special permissions, Users Read&Execute, List folder.. ,read and system which has full control

The drive has been formatted again but the problem still exists

The full drive becomes write protected randomly and a reboot solves it short term
 
This typically means that you have connected an external drive that is formatted with an NTFS partition. Mac cannot write to NTFS partitions and so will often indicate the drive is write-protected.

Solution: Reformat the drive in Mac Disk Utility to make it available for use in MacOS.
Warning! Reformatting the drive will ERASE ALL DATA on the drive. Please note that Windows partitions and MacOS partitions are not easily compatible at this time, so using an external drive to transfer data between a Windows computer and a MacOS computer can be difficult and sometimes dangerous to your data. Using CDs or DVDs to transfer data is often a better solution.
 
he didn't say mac

also, you're not allowed to advertise in your sig..


welcome to the forums though :)
 
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