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    WD External hard drive trouble with read-only access

    I have bought a HP Desktop pc recently and I also have an external dvd drive which is in read-only. Now when I connect this drive in my Vista section, I am not able to modify not a single file but i can access them all without any issues. I have the full administrator rights on my computer and have also cleared the read-only but the files on this external drive still is not able to be changed. Any hel guys

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    Re: WD External hard drive trouble with read-only access

    Try to follow the below solutions and see if you succeed:

    • First of all you have to click Start >> then All Programs >> and then Accessories
    • After that simply right click on CMD.EXE and select Run As Administrator
    • Next you have to type CD\ to drop into the root directory.
    • After that change the letter of the external drive by either the below alphabets -
      ATTRIB -S -H -R *.*/S and hit Enter.

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    I really cant thank you enough, because now that my external drive is able to work as it should be. Also I was hoping that what exactly you do with the command lines that you have given in your post? I think that the registry value changes for the USB devices and hence we cant really adopt one suggestion.

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    Re: WD External hard drive trouble with read-only access

    hey, i tried the same thing but my command prompt says "path not found"
    then i tried typing ATTRIB -S -H -R and it says access denied -k: \HPLauncher. exe
    access denied -K:\autorun.inf
    i tried deleting and changing the partition so that i can use it on my ps3 but i failed. new partition CDFS

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