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by nickburke

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Hi all,

I have searched and not found a fix to this so need to pick some peoples minds.

I am having an issue with my USB ports, i plug in a USB stick, External Hard drive, ect, and I can access the files on it and use them, however when i got to save back to the drive it says the drive is write protected.

I have tried flipping the switch on the key, that wasn't the problem. I have tried different USB stick and even my iPod, and my eBook Hard drive does the same thing. The files I am trying to move around are not write protected either.

If it helps to know normal devices work like mouses and keyboards.

I believe this is a software issue but not sure where it may be occurring.

Some system details:
Windows Vista Ultimate
Asus G1s Laptop

Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated as i flying through my Blank CDs very quickly :)

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by ---tk---

Here are some forums of what other people are experiencing, pretty much the same thing as you. They have suggested that a virus attacked their system, and the AV actually "write protected" their external device... kinda smart considering, alot of new viruses put themselves in an auto run... anyways heres a few links.
http://forums.techarena.in/vista-hardware-devices/961967.htm
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=185805
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1084283.html

by nickburke

Hi All

I tried those pages and found the program thumbcrew to be most effective.

Doing it through the registry didnt always work, and the cmd.exe>diskpart only worked till i rebooted.

I still would like to find out why it occurred, i looked for the virus that people talk about but it didnt fix the issue and my virus and male-ware scanner didnt pick it up.

Any way thanks for the help TK, thank loads and loads i can now empty out my hard drives.

Regards.

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