Questions tagged [write-protect]
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How to set an USB drive as a local drive using CMD?
I'm trying to hide the data on my USB drive. I've come up with the idea to hide everything in a second partition, which Windows would not recognize. Then, in the first partition, there would be a ...
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How to write protect your USB drive using MS DOS ATTRIB?
I'm trying to write protect my USB drive with a batch file. I've learnt that it is possible to do so with ATTRIB +R. The drive switches it's drive letter since it's used on multiple computers. I've ...
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How to remove the "enable editing" banner in Foxit?
I want to read a PDF/A document in Foxit. I love reading in "fit page" zoom, and so I insist on maximizing screen space vertically, as missing vertical pixels result in a smaller rendering of the main ...
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SD card write protection
I'm trying to remove write protection from my 32 GB microSD from QUMOX.
It worked till yesterday, when my phone said "SD card is damaged, try to format". So I did, no luck.
Every time I try to write ...
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Boot from mass storage in GRUB2 error
So I want to install a new system using liveUSB. However the .iso file is avout 5.5GB big and the only thing that can handle such capacity is my SD Card (16 GB, pendrives are only 4 GB). I've made the ...
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Protect formatting in Excel 2010, and allow editing of text
I am using Excel 2010 with a shared workbook. I need the formatting protected, but allow users to edit text and select from drop-down boxes.
Following the instructions in this answer to Protecting ...
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Limiting editable fields in Excel
Can I limit only specific fields to be non-editable by users in Excel?
The 'Protect sheet' function only offers protection to the entire file with specific fields editable, I want the opposite (most ...
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Remove write protection of flash drive from firmware
I bought an HP v220w 32GB flash drive 2 months ago and it's been working perfectly until yesterday when all of a sudden it became write protected. I've tried evey simple, non technical way to solve ...
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Can't Format PenDrive(SanDisk Cruzer Blade)
Plz read complete question before marking Duplicate.
I have a Sandisk Cruzer Blade 16GB Pendrive(No warranty left).
It have one movie file in it now, though copyable, not playable.
Problem is I can't ...
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Cannot format USB flash drive, everything claims it's write protected
I have a 4GB HP USB flash drive that I had written a Chromium OS image to with Win32DiskImager. Now I am trying to reformat it but I can't. Everything tells me the disk is write protected. Being a USB ...
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Handheld Terminal SD Card error: the file may be in read-only memory, on a write-protected disk or used by another application
I have a handheld terminal and I have made the terminal connect to the PC using USB cable.
Also, SD Card is also in the handheld terminal slot.
Till a few days ago, I was reaching the files in SD ...
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HORM with a writable partition
To achieve faster boot/shutdown times, as well as securing the data of the operating system, I wish to utilize UWF with HORM (Hibernate Once, Resume Many).
However, a requirement for HORM is that ...
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Where is the write-protect switch/screw/jumper on the Samsung Chromebox?
I have a Samsung Series 3 Chromebox, model number XE300M22-B01US, manufactured December 2012.
I would like to put coreboot on it so I can single-boot Linux without ChromeOS pulling the sad face at ...
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How can I write-protect a DVD or CD?
I would like to burn a write-protected DVD.
It contains video in MP4 format.
How can I achieve that?
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Erase write-protected USB
I'm trying to erase a write-protected USB flash drive. This drive was distributed with Autodesk software on it; the write protection was intentional.
I've tried formatting and deleting, which of ...
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What to use for recovery disk when CD is not an option
I have a computer that has no optical drive and getting on to work with that is very hard(believe me I've tried).
What are some alternatives for recovery media in case the current OS fails?
I have ...
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How will I make a pendrive write protected?
I just want to make my pendrive write protected just to make sure, when I insert it public PCs like in cyber cafes in order to just read the files, it doesn't get virus affected. How can I do this?
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USB Stick Becoming Write Protected [duplicate]
I am running windows 7. I have a 2GB flash-drive running a strawberry Perl portable edition. I was spending time installing CPAN modules this morning when suddenly my disk became write protected. ...
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Pen drive has a write-protected issue [duplicate]
My pen drive has become write0protected. Even when I am trying to format it is giving write-protected problem. I tried many solutions I found on the internet, but all failed.
Here are my pen drive ...
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USB stick mysteriously become write protected [duplicate]
So, somehow over the weekend, my 1GB USB flash drive has managed to become write-protected. There is no switch on the stick, so I'm concluding that something has corrupted at some point. Obviously I ...
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Block write access in a specific folder
I guess you are all aware of Bettersurf that keeps getting in computers and its almost impossible to find how?
Well, I want to get rid of it and only deleting its file does not fix the problem, it ...
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Remove Write Protection from USB
My flash USB is write protected and I've tried every possible methods I've encountered over the internet, to get rid of this.
Accessing the usb is not working.
Format from my computer, is not working....
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Work log that can't be edited but can be added to
I want to find a way of creating a document such that once an entry is finished the existing entries are locked for editing however further entries can be added. This is to serve as a record of work ...
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Computer seems to repeatedly result in flash drives going over to write protect mode
I have a desktop computer into which I routinely plug flash drives. Recently, two of those drives have activated their write protection for no reason, and were immune to any attempts at formatting ...
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Removing "WriteProtection" of an External drive on Windows 7
I'm facing this problem where I'm not able to make any change to my external flash storage drive (I'm saying Flash here because my external hard-drive is fine). I cannot delete any file in it.
It was ...
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corrupted usb stuck on read only
I had a perfectly fine usb working normal 32GB. Now i reformat it with windoes to fat32. took it to mac to load image file using disk utility. which did not work. now the usb is set to read only. i ...
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Cannot turn off ReadyBoost from USB, disk appears to be read-only [duplicate]
I recently started using ReadyBoody on my Sandisk Cruzer Edge 16GB USB, and when I needed to copy files into the USB, I could simply go right click USB > Properties > ReadyBoost > turn off ReadyBoost. ...
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Hard drive can be read from but not written to [closed]
My external hard drive can be read from but not written to. This is not the first time this problem has appeared. It started a few weeks ago. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not. If I unplug it, then ...
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Windows XP, write protect a partition on non-system disk
I need to be able to disable writing to disk, on a drive in Windows XP. I don't see this on Google searches...?
To be more clear, I'm not looking to protect the C:, but rather another HD called F:.
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How do i remove Write Protection from a HP USB? I need to format it [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Remove the write protection from an USB flash disk
Cannot write, format, nor erase flash drive
Recently i just came across this problem, my usb doesn't seem to work anymore ...
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How do I remove a partition from a write-protected USB drive?
Just got this USB drive as a freebie.
It has two partitions, and only one is write protected ... so it's not a switch.
Tried EnableUSBWrite.reg
And tried reformatting from cmd.
Diskpart doesn't list ...
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How to disable write protection in my flash drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I remove a USB drive’s write protection?
I own a SanDisk Ultra 32GB and been using it for quite a while now. It has been a while since I've used it and has suddenly ...
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How do I remove a USB drive's write protection? [duplicate]
I have a SanDisk Cruser Blade USB stick that suddenly seems to be write protected. I tried running DiskPart but after I write the command "attributes disk clear readonly" it displays this:
Microsoft ...
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Make some cells in an Excel sheet password protected?
I have an Excel 2010 file that I do not want to have a password for, but I do want to lock certain cells so that I do not accidentally edit them.
Can certain cells be made read-only without a ...
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Can't edit files in Eclipse even though not read-only
This is such an amateur question I'm embarrassed I even have to ask.
In Eclipse, sometimes I can't edit a file. I can open it, but it behaves as it if it's a read-only file—typing has no effect....
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How can I disable write protection in my USB flash drive?
My USB flash drive is currently unusable because it somehow (quite suddenly!) became write protected. I have googled around and tried many solutions to this problem, but none of them have worked so ...
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USB drive becomes write protected after inserting it
Whenever I insert a USB drive in my desktop PC running Windows 7 Ultimate, it becomes write protected. Then when I use it on my laptop, I can't delete the files on it.
I already tried scanning for ...
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VirtualBox shared folder write permission - Ubuntu 12.04
I'm using the following command to mount my folder in VirtualBox:
sudo \mount -t vboxsf -o rw -o uid=1000 -o gid=1000 Dropbox ~/Dropbox/
However, the folder is read-only. I re-installed Guest ...
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Disable write-protection on Micro SD
My task today is to open up and copy some files to 700 brand new micro SD cards.
As I get going on this task I am finding that some of the Micro SD cards are telling me "sorry this drive is write ...
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Pen Drive automatically got Write-Protected [duplicate]
I had given a pen drive of mine to a friend with some data on it. He plugged the pen drive into the Windows 7 powered Acer netbook, didn't eject (unmount) it before pulling it out.
When I again ...
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Cannot write, format, nor erase flash drive
I have a 4gig flash drive, which I can read from but not write on, erase, nor format in any computer (tried in 7 different computers including xp, vista, and win7).
I want to erase all the data ...
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Windows PDF viewer that auto-refreshes PDF when compiling with pdflatex
I'm writing a LaTeX document and am using the command line to compile the LaTeX code into a PDF document. In Linux I would just open the PDF with Evince PDF Viewer, and whenever I recompiled the LaTeX ...
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USB drive: "Media is write protected" on initialize after drive swap WD MyBook Essentials
I got a WD MyBook Essentials the other day but after a week or so the drive physically broke.
I tried opening the case and replacing the drive with another SATA WD drive I had lying around. This ...
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How to make USB drive or pen drive write protected? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to write protect a USB key?
I have a pen drive which I used to carry some files from my laptop to other public computers, and these public computers are virus infected. Now ...
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USB Hardware vs. Software Write Lock
I'm in the market for a USB flash drive, and remember this cool feature a tiny 32MB flash drive of mine had: a write lock switch. This seemed like it would be an amazing feature to have as a shield ...
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Can't remove write protection in Windows 7
I have a problem with the write protection of Windows 7. All my files in my users folder are protected and it is impossible to remove. When I uncheck the checkbox, a progressbar runs threw but ...
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How to write protect a USB key?
I'm looking for a solution to write-protect the contents of a USB key. The idea is to prevent its contents from being inadvertently removed by the user or changed by malicious programs -- not to ...
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How does one turn off all writing to attached disks in Windows 7?
I would like to turn off writing to all non-system disks in Windows 7, including indexing, I would like for the functionality to be equivalent to mount -o loop,ro in Linux if possible. Is there a way ...
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How to make a partition on external storage read-only? And revert to normal?
Sometimes, I have to give my external storage someone else. But, I am worry about files and folders which accidentally deleted, moved, changed etc... Therefore, it is enough that data on the disk can ...
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Remove write protection in Windows
Why do I always get "cannot write please remove the write protection" when I copy files on C: ? I selected that my account have full control, but i still get this error. What can I do ?
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