How to Format a Write-Protected Hard Drive in Windows 10

Neemobeer

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• Jan 17, 2020

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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

 

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Markict

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• Jan 17, 2020

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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

 

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WindowsPro

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• Jan 23, 2020

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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....

 

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Himend

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• Feb 14, 2020

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Markict said:

Trying to format harddrive but windows 10 wont all me as is right protected

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You can try through admin setting

 

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