Recent content by jaf2000

RESOLVED!!!!!! :teeth_smile: I went to my system restore points and only saw one there from 3/30. That was strange, as it should have been capturing them frequently. Anyway, I figured since two of my usb drives showed up as write protected on the windows 7 system and they show up fine on...

An update. I went through the entire gpedit.msc and no policy is enabled that would cause this. Anyone know of a registry entry issue or a usb driver issue? I did try the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies\WriteProtect=0 and it did not help. I also made sure all...

Ok here is what I did. 1. Dug out an old USB Sandisk 1 GB flash drive. No system contents on it, no U3 or anything like that on it. Connected it to Windows 7, said it was write protected. 2. Connected that same disk to the 2008 system, I can write to it. 3. Went to Start -> Control Panel ->...

Ok, I formatted my usb drive (I copied the contents to another system) on my 2008 system and selected NTFS. I then took the empty usb drive and put it on my windows 7 system and tried to copy a file to it. I again got the write protected message. If my windows 7 system had a neck I'd be...

Hi Randy, Thanks for the welcome. It definitely does not have a physical switch or button to lock it. I can have all 3 systems right next to each other (windows 7, XP,. 2008) and plug it into the three of them. Only Windows 7 sees it as write protected. It is a SANdisk Cruzer 16GB...

Ok I attached my usb drive onto another system, copied over the files, reformatted it as FAT32. Then I put the usb drive back on my windows 7 system and still the windows 7 system marked it as write protected. So I put the files back on with my other systems. I'm stuck on this. What could be...

I'm the only one with the access to the USB drive and the windows 7 system. I'll give the format a try and let you know how it goes. In checking the USB drive it was formatted with FAT32. Thanks for the help everyone.

Hi, yes I placed it into another computer and Bitlocker did not come up. I was able to write to the drive. I then followed your instruction and disabled the service and even rebooted. I did get a bit further. The Bitlocker message that used to pop up asking me to encrypt the drive did not...

Thanks. But the thing is, I never enabled Bitlocker, never set any key or anything. So not sure why all of a sudden its asking to encrypt my usb thumb drive. My hard disk is not encrypted and yet I can write to it. I basically don't want Bitlocker installed. So how can I tell Bitlocker to...

I have Windows 7 installed and up until recently I could read and write files from my hard disk to my usb thumb drive. Now after some updates were downloaded and applied (automatically so I am not sure what was installed), when I insert my drive into the usb slot, the Bitlocker Drive Encryption...