HDD becomes "Write Protected"

Hi,

I am running Vista Business 64bit an an Asus P5WD-Deleux with four hard
drives. Three on Intel S-ATA controller and one on the Jmicron controller.

For no apparent reason Vista will set the drive on the Jmicron
controller to Write Protected. I have changed the drive thinking it may
have been a hardware fault but it still happens. Sometimes running chkdsk
/f on it will change it back to normal, other times it won't and stays that
way until I reboot and then run chkdsk /f.

This Vista prep is around a year old and this has only just (over the
last couple of months) started happening. Has anyone got any ideas?


Trev

rblevow
Tue Jan 22 21:12:01 PST 2008


You're not alone. I'm having essentially the same problem. In my case,
it is my d-drive that gets write protected. The only way I have found
to get it writable is to schedule "chkdsk /f" to run at boot. The drive
is the second partition on the disk that contains my boot partition, but
this happens only on the d-drive.

It's very annoying and I have found no pattern in the occurrence and
nothing useful on the web so far.


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rblevow