how to unwrite protect a harddrive

hummels

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Oct 20, 2013
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hey so i recently put in a second harddrive but i dont need its windows and programs and other but whenever i try to delete them it gives me the write protected pop up, so how do i un write protect a harddrive on windows xp?
 

hummels

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Oct 20, 2013
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oh its not a new disk, its the disk from my other broken computer, the hard drives fine though, i tired formating it, deleteing the files even going to the cmd.exe and trying to unwrite protect an format it there and nothing seems to work
 

And that's why you have to take the ownership first. It's all in the link.