Mt Drive is playing up! – ‘write protected’

_Jimlad_ · 2 May 2007 at 10:05

I plugged my 2gig usb drive in and it comes up as ‘write protected’ I can’t delete or move stuff around, it comes up with please remove the protection.
I don’t seem to have any switches on the drive and it worked fine yesterday, any ideas?

swinnie · 2 May 2007 at 10:42

If you can see the drive in My Computer write click on it and remove any security attributes and tick the read, write and execute attributes.

_Jimlad_ · 2 May 2007 at 10:44

swinnie said:
If you can see the drive in My Computer write click on it and remove any security attributes and tick the read, write and execute attributes.

i'm not getting that option when i right click

swinnie · 2 May 2007 at 14:01

Sorry, I mean click on properties and then find any security attributes and correct them to at least read, write and execute. When I get home and you still need help I can provide a screen dump?

_Jimlad_ · 2 May 2007 at 14:09

swinnie said:
Sorry, I mean click on properties and then find any security attributes and correct them to at least read, write and execute. When I get home and you still need help I can provide a screen dump?

i just don't seem to have those options when i right click and do properties

swinnie · 2 May 2007 at 15:17

Ok. Can you take a screenshot of what you have got, like right click wise?

_Jimlad_ · 2 May 2007 at 18:33

ok these are the screen shots i have of the error msg and the propites option

swinnie · 2 May 2007 at 18:50

Strange. You said it worked fine yesterday, are you plugging it into the same port as you was yesterday??

_Jimlad_ · 2 May 2007 at 22:19

yeah tried it on 5 computers, it seems locked!

swinnie · 3 May 2007 at 09:27

This really has me stumped.

I will look at my memory stick when I get home again tonight and see if there are any ways around it.

Anyone else got any ideas??

basmic · 3 May 2007 at 09:40

Had a bit of a Google, and from what I can make of the results, it would seem your USB drive is up the spout.

Sorry.

_Jimlad_ · 3 May 2007 at 12:53

noooooooooooooooooo! i have had this bad boy for 18months it's a 2gig and cost like £80 (i know times have changed)

- but it's soooooooo damn quick!

swinnie · 3 May 2007 at 13:46

I looked at my drives when they where plugged in just now and there isn't any access writes there. I looked at google etc and got the same result as what 'basmic' came up with.

This could have been caused by dropping it or something similar.

_Jimlad_ · 3 May 2007 at 18:19

my poor drive!