My data drive is write protected, how do I fix this

I am running 64 bit home premium and with this last tuesdays update I
suddenly have one of my hard drives telling me it is write protected and I am
locked from doing anything to it. I have searched to no avail for a fix.

Use System Restore to restore back to before the update. If you still have
the issue, uninstall the updates. If that works, you can reinstall the
updates one by one manually if you wish until you know which one is causing
this.

If he succeeds getting his drive back to the non write-protected state, I
would also physically disconnect the data drive while restoring the updates
and plug it back after the updates are done.

I did a system restore and it did not change anything.

Can I copy everything off the drive into another one then format the write
protected one and bring back all the data? Will this effect the write
protection?

That might work. Delete and then recreate the partition, do a quick format,
and then copy back your files.

[NecroGnomezZz]

What The %$$%@ Do You mean system restore? OMG yeah sure like that's going to change it, no... There are a few ways here are a few...

One is resetting Your CMOS BIOS (That is if that is where it's write protected, another way is downloading a utility to set or reset write protection...

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