How do I turn the write protection off on my hard drive. It somehow turned on and now I cannot put anything else on there because the write protection error pops up.

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Originally Posted by joe2006

How do I turn the write protection off on my hard drive. It somehow turned on and now I cannot put anything else on there because the write protection error pops up.

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Try disconnecting the external drive, then reconnecting it to let Windows find it again. Hopefully that will do the trick.