Got a weird one here I think...one of my students brought a 1 gig Conner that he had Win98 on....wanted to reformat and do something else with...when trying to fdisk and format, he gets a warning that the hard disk is write protected....don't recall ever seeing a hard drive as write protected.....any help is appreciated thanks, stuart

Hi, I think write protection of hard drive can be caused by virus or by some driver. For example, old compressing HDD driver Stacker (ancestor of DriveSpace) write protected HDD in the case of severe damage to protect data from possible overwriting. Usually you can overcome this problem booting from virus free diskette (and without any drivers like Drvspace on it). Did you try to use FDISK and FORMAT booting from the diskette? Good luck, Igor M

Posibley someone has used the attrib command on it with no parameters at the c: prompt "attrib +r" try "attrib -r" seems too simple but you never know!

;-)) My girfriend had the same problem.... Go into the BIOS and set the Virus-Warning off. This was your write-protection, because FDISK and FORMAT are changeing the MBR and the PartitionTable which are protected by the BIOS Michelle

Hey i got a problem too if you could help me out it would be appreciated. Im not exactly a computer wiz so i need some help with this. Some dumbass put a trojan on my computer, now i deleted all his files except one which i cant because it says it's write protected. I wannaa know if there is a way to delete this file anyway. Thanks

TRY GPOING TO GATEWAY WEBSITE AND DOWNLOADING A FILE CALLED 7508504.exe EXTRACT THIS AND RUN IT CALLED GWSCAN WRITE ZERO'S TO THE DRIVE. THIS WILL PUT A ZERO ON EACH CLUSTER OR SECTOR. THEN FDISK AND REFORMAT THE DRIVE AND YOU SHOULD BE GOOD TO GO.. SEAGATE CHEETAH SCSI ARE THE ONLY DRIVES THAT I KNOW OF THAT PROVIDE A JUMPER TO WRITE PROTECT A HARD DRIVE ALL OTHERS ARE TROJAN VIRUS IN NATURE. JOHN TYSON HARDWARE ENGINEER WWW.NOPROBLEMCOMPUTERS.COM

MR. TYSON HARDWARE ENGINEER PLEASE HELP ME. I HAVE A USES COMPURTER THE HARDDRIVE IS FULL AND ALL THE ADON FILES LIKE JPEG IMAGES,BITMAP IMAGES, STY FILES, STL FILES AND SO ON WHEN I TRY TO DELETE THEM IT SAY MAKE SURE YOUR HARDDRIVE IS NOT TO FULL OR WRIE-PROECTED AND MY (D:)HAS NO SPACE LEFT ON IT. I WAS DOWNLOADING A MEDIAPLAYER AND IT WAS UP TO 99% AND STOPPED BECAUSE MY HARDDRIVE WAS OUT OF SPACE. CAN I DELETE WHILE THIS DOWNLOAD IS ON HOLD OR DO I NEED TO CANCLE THE DOWNLOAD FIRST TO DELETE. PLEASE HELP ME I JUST DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO AND I DONT HAVE MONEY TO GET A NEW COMPUTER.CAN ANYONE HELP ME.