Re: Cannot write to drive "Media is write protected"



"psychosmurf" wrote:


If you have drives that are encrypted with PGP and the show up
write-protected; don't try the diskpart trick. it'll only make the
drive completely unmountable. I found that out the hard way; was able
to recover the data but it cost me two days of decryption.


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psychosmurf
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I have exact same problem with Vista x64 Ultimate but it only occurs in
those hard disk partitions wich i have partitioned with vistas own disk
management, my other hard disk is partittioned with winxp disk management and
does not have that problem.
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