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The thread discusses issues with formatting an external hard drive in Windows 10, as the drive appears write-protected. The original poster, using a drive from an old laptop connected via USB, receives a write-protection notice when attempting to format. Responders suggest solutions such as using Disk Management to remove and recreate partitions and reviewing admin settings, but no definitive fix is confirmed within the thread.
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Trying to format harddrive but windows 10 wont all me as is right protected
 

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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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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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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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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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