The media is write protected

[romaas]

Hello,
I'v Maxtor one touch||| hard drive how to remove the media write protectio from it ,I'm using win7 ,Thanks

 

[pszalapski]

Hello,
I'v Maxtor one touch||| hard drive how to remove the media write protectio from it ,I'm using win7 ,Thanks

I tried this and it worked, in Windows 7. Start Cmd.exe as administrator, then:

C:\> Diskpart

DISKPART> list disk
DISKPART> select disk (id)
DISKPART> online disk (if the disk is not online)
DISKPART> attributes disk clear readonly

Then I was able to manipulate the volume in Disk Management control panel.