Write Protected

[Jenni]

I've been having an issue with Vista Ultimate x64 randomly telling me that one or more of my hard drives, and all the files on those drives, is write protected and cannot be modified. It's starting to get annoying. Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, how do you fix it? It won't even let me reformat the drive from the Management console.

[EzyStvy]

How many hard drives does the machine have? Are they all internal drives?

[shadowpr]

http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesp...ard-drive.aspx

Also, have you tried to right click and look at the drives properties for file permissions. Make sure it's not read only.

[Jenni]

6 hard drives-4 internal, 2 external.

UAC is turned off. And yes, when it does this, the permissions for the drive are set to "read-only" and cannot be changed. If you uncheck the box and apply, it doesn't change anything, and the check is still there.

[EzyStvy]

Which drives is the issue happening too and is it always the same ones?

Does rebooting make any difference?

[Jenni]

I've never had it happen with my two external drives, it's always the two internal drives that are not part of the RAID.

Rebooting usually fixes the problem, but I hate the idea of having to reboot my computer all the time just because Vista is stupid.