M Markict Senior Member Joined Feb 9, 2015 Jan 17, 2020 #1 Trying to format harddrive but windows 10 wont all me as is right protected
Neemobeer Cloud Security Engineer Staff member Joined Jul 4, 2015 Location Colorado Jan 17, 2020 #2 More details would be helpful. You can't format an active boot drive, you can't format something that is read only such as CD/DVD R media
More details would be helpful. You can't format an active boot drive, you can't format something that is read only such as CD/DVD R media
M Markict Senior Member Joined Feb 9, 2015 Jan 17, 2020 #3 The harddrive is one I had in old laptop and I am connecting it with an external harddrive USB enclosure. Using windows 10 on laptop to format it but keep getting notice that its write protected
The harddrive is one I had in old laptop and I am connecting it with an external harddrive USB enclosure. Using windows 10 on laptop to format it but keep getting notice that its write protected
WindowsPro Senior Member Joined May 19, 2017 Jan 23, 2020 #4 Did you use the Disk management-tool (via run as admin)... And via that remove the partitions, create new, and THEN format the new partitions....
Did you use the Disk management-tool (via run as admin)... And via that remove the partitions, create new, and THEN format the new partitions....
H Himend Well-Known Member Joined Feb 14, 2020 Feb 14, 2020 #5 Markict said: Trying to format harddrive but windows 10 wont all me as is right protected Click to expand... You can try through admin setting
Markict said: Trying to format harddrive but windows 10 wont all me as is right protected Click to expand... You can try through admin setting