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I am trying to use my external hard drive on my Windows 11 machine, but it says it is write-protected now all of a sudden. I tried some of the fixes online (uncheck read-only in properties, regedit, diskpart, sfc scan, & chdisk), but they didn't work. Any USB I plug in is also write-protected as well. I have been trying to fix this for a week so any help is appreciated.
"detail disk" command in diskpart says that the disk is not Read-Only but when I try to add files to the disk it says its write-protected.
"detail disk" command in diskpart says that the disk is not Read-Only but when I try to add files to the disk it says its write-protected.
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There is no block switch on my external hard drive and USB stick. My user is the owner of the disk so I do have write permission. Here are what my permissions look like:
Auth User: Modify, Read & Exec, List folder contents, Read, Write
System: Modify, Read & Exec, List folder contents, Read, Write
Admin: Modify, Read & Exec, List folder contents, Read, Write
Users: Modify, Read & Exec, List folder contents, Read
I also tried using my admin account to write to disk but it didn't work.
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Have you checked for any GPOs applied via regedit here
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\RemovableStorageDevices or
HKU\Same path
There are also policies that prevent write unless you are using Bitlocker which are also under the \Policies\ path
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\RemovableStorageDevices or
HKU\Same path
There are also policies that prevent write unless you are using Bitlocker which are also under the \Policies\ path
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