Write protected folder - USB Disk Drive

Melissa said:

I am not that confident in going into the command prompt section.

I did the first part - I went into D: - thinking that was logical.

I will post the screen shot from what the result was - I do not know what to do next. When I unplugged it before and re-inserted the USB Disk it asked for me to Scan and fix - tried to do that but said it was - write protected.

Thanks for your assistance.

You cut/paste it wrong!!

Code:

diskpart
sel  vol  D
attrib  vol
exit

Give me the output please

Hello Melissa,

I have been reading all your posts for several days now. You are learning a lot, some things above my paygrade, LOL.

My favorite way to post screen snips is with the win7 Snipping Tool. I keep it pinned to the Taskbar.

Yep, that`s the best tool, you only show what you want to show.

Code:

diskpart
sel  vol  D
attrib vol
exit

post output

If you have a disk that is showing a Current Read-only State of Yes, but Read-Only is set to No, this means that at the hardware level the disk is read-only and we can't fix that through Diskpart.

It is write protected because you pressed some button or switch to make it weitw protected. Any switch or button on it? Is it write protected on another machine as well? It could be a registry setting!

Melissa said:

Thanks forum,

I am learning - still need a lot more training and guidance by patient people.

I guess I am am not so good at the snipping tool and you get more than you bargain for with my posts. Thanks for the tip.

I will see if I did what you said correctly.

Please feel free to call me an idiot or silly

Volume D is USB stick ... Sure? It's not read only.
Disk is also not read only. But usb disk "current read only state" is yes.

Try usb stick in another system. Same problem? What brand/type is usb stick?