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Suddenly my USB Flash Drive (8gb Corsaire Voyager) is suddenly read-only, and I'm not sure why.
There is no "read-only" switch on the drive. All of the data is still there. But nothing can be written to it anymore. There are 2gb free on the drive. The OS is Windows7 Pro x64. It wasn't this way yesterday.
In FreeCommander, if I try to create a new folder on the drive, it tells me the drive is write-protected.
I plugged it into a different computer and it is read-only there, too.
What could cause that, and how can I get it back to read/write mode like it ought to be? I know I can fix it by reformatting it, but I don't want to do it that way.
I have found several solutions to do this, but haven't solved it yet:
- Safely Eject Flash Drive
- Make a registry edit (the key doesn't exist, however)
- Add the registry key (that didn't exist) and set the value to 0 (
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
setWriteProtect
to 0) - Reassign the drive letter
- "Scan and Fix" (check disk dialogue appears when you plug it in) - write-protection prevents this, however.
This is NOT a duplicate - that question was asked just yesterday, this question was asked three years ago - the other one is the duplicate. You all can't close my question based on just the title. – bgmCoder – 2016-09-17T13:25:21.923
2@bgmCoder YUes we can if the proposed duplicate 1/ answers the question 2/ has better answers than this one :) – DavidPostill – 2016-09-29T14:14:48.127
If you right click on the drive and go to security tab, is "allow" checked in the permissions field for "Everyone"? – Carl B – 2013-01-28T20:46:11.847
There is no "security" tab in the "properties" dialogue like there is on a regular drive. I think something is wrong with the hardware. – bgmCoder – 2013-01-28T21:34:13.717
@BGM-I should have waited for your reply as I answered as if you could get to the security tab. – Carl B – 2013-01-28T21:40:23.223