sodar79 join:2007-05-03 Cleveland, OH |
[hard drive] Western Digital 1tb external hard drive in readonlyI have a 1TB WD external hard drive on my PC running Windows 7. Almost daily the hard drive becomes readonly where I cannot copy anything to the drive.
I have run diskpart and cleared readonly quite a few times but that only works as a temporary solution. Sometimes "attributes disk clear readonly" doesn't work at all.
Any other advice on how to PERMANENTLY remove this readonly mode? I use it as my main source of data. Could it be breaking? Could it be my pc? |
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Fraoch join:2003-08-01 Cambridge, ON SmartRG SR808ac TP-Link EAP225 Grandstream HT502
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Fraoch
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2013-Jul-15 2:15 pm
Re: [hard drive] Western Digital 1tb external hard drive in readI'm a Linux guy so I'm not familiar with Windows 7 - however in Linux if the OS detects something wrong with the drive when it's mounting it, it will attempt to mount the drive in read-only mode rather than just abandon mounting it altogether. Windows 7 may be doing the same thing.
It sounds like the hard drive is failing. Make an immediate backup and post your SMART test results. |
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El QuintronCancel Culture Ambassador Premium Member join:2008-04-28 Tronna |
to sodar79
I've had a couple of these and some of them can be total lemons, they're usually WD Greens in a proprietary enclosure.
If the drive isn't failing (which you'll have to determine on your own) you might have better luck gutting it from the WD enclosure and put it in a reliable 3rd party enclosure. I've used Vantec and Mediasonic, I prefer the Mediasonic ones.
If I were you, I would back up the drive immediately, and test it later. |
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