WRITE PROTECT ON HD, BIOS PROB ?

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WRITE PROTECT ON HD, BIOS PROB ?

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Name: CARLO
Date: January 1, 2001 at 06:08:16 Pacific
Subject: WRITE PROTECT ON HD, BIOS PROB ?

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well, what i've searched so far is that this is a common problem. There is a write protect on my hard drive. The problem is that I cannot fdisk my drive because it says there is a write protection error and after my drive has been formatted and partitioned through other means such as maxtors powermax utility, there appears a writing to drive c problem when trying to install windows 98. I know for sure that this does not concern the hard drive because i had it replaced with a brand spanking new one(thank you maxtor) so it must be bios. I see that my bios is AMI version 1.20. cannot find any option that turns this write protection off.Please help me

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Response Number 1

Name: Carlo
Date: January 1, 2001 at 06:09:34 Pacific
Subject: WRITE PROTECT ON HD, BIOS PROB ?

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Here's my e-mail also:
Curl007@aol.com

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Response Number 2

Name: Brian
Date: January 1, 2001 at 06:19:49 Pacific
Subject: WRITE PROTECT ON HD, BIOS PROB ?

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I've written this before...but i have Win 95. But when i have to format my HD,i have to go to the C:\ in dos and type LOCK and hit Enter answer Y. Windows locks out certain files that you can not delete unless you type this command. Let me know if this works on Win 98...thanks.

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Response Number 3

Name: Brian
Date: January 1, 2001 at 06:21:33 Pacific
Subject: WRITE PROTECT ON HD, BIOS PROB ?

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Forgot to mention...if you do this you will have to re-format the HD.

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Response Number 4

Name: xerx
Date: January 1, 2001 at 07:52:28 Pacific
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use a clean boot disk too format/fdisk

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Response Number 5

Name:
Date: January 1, 2001 at 10:02:51 Pacific
Subject: WRITE PROTECT ON HD, BIOS PROB ?

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that's strange....hd's themselves don't really support a write-protection....it must be bios related, especially if it does it with multiple drives....
i would just reset the bios...whatever it is, it's not a normal setup, so setting everything back to it's defaults should stop it

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Response Number 6

Name: BuggeralL
Date: January 1, 2001 at 17:39:13 Pacific
Subject: WRITE PROTECT ON HD, BIOS PROB ?

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Do you have GoBack installed on your system? if so, you need to deactivate GoBack otherwise you will not be able to reinstall windows or format. let me know :) hope this helps!
-kelly

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Response Number 7

Name: CARLO
Date: January 2, 2001 at 09:35:44 Pacific
Subject: WRITE PROTECT ON HD, BIOS PROB ?

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NOPE, DON'T HAVE GOBACK INSTALLED ON MY SYSTEM. I AM GOING TO TRY DEFAULTING MY BIOS VALUES THOUGH. TELL YA IF IT WORKS. ALSO NOT SURE IF THIS IS THE SAME PROBLEM WITH WINDOWS 95 BUT I HEAR THIS HAPPENS IN 98 OFTEN, THANKS FOR THE POSTS, IF ANYONE HAS ANY MORE IDEAS PLEASE POST EM UP

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Response Number 8

Name: bluemouse2k2
Date: February 14, 2002 at 10:17:04 Pacific
Subject: WRITE PROTECT ON HD, BIOS PROB ?

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If you have fixed you write-protected hard drive, please let me know how by e-mail. I have the same problem and I have tried everything.
Thank you.

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