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External Hard Drive Write-Protected

Anonymous
2022-11-27T15:56:37+00:00

I am trying to use my external hard drive on my Windows 11 Home machine, but it says it is write-protected now all of a sudden. I tried some of the fixes online (uncheck read-only in properties, regedit, diskpart, sfc scan, & chdisk), but they didn't work. Any USB I plug in is also write-protected as well. I have been trying to fix this for a week so any help is appreciated.

"detail disk" command in diskpart says that the disk is not Read-Only but when I try to add files to the disk it says its write-protected.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-11-27T17:31:46+00:00

    Yes, external hard drive and also USB stick. I don't see a Disk Management app in the start menu. How do I go there?

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-11-27T17:18:20+00:00

    USB external?

    What is shown in Disk Management>

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