NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/os/msdos/misc/6166

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From: [e-mail] (Shannon Tremblay)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: write protected hard drive
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Date: 16 Nov 92 14:45:51 GMT
Organization: Acadia University
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Hi all,

I just bought a WesternDigital hard drive, supposed to format to 203Mg,
don't remember the exact drive model.

My question is " Has anyone ever had a case where your hard drive says
it is write-protectd? "

I  installed the drive the other day.
Ran fdisk and dos format on it.
Started loading software, but had to leave the machine for a while.  I shut it
off, left, and when I  returned, tried to resume loading my software onto
the disk.
Problem was that the disk was write-protectd.
I tried to re-format the disk but could not.  It would verify the disk but
when it tried to write the system files to the disk it would say the disk
was write-protected.
I tried fdisk on it again.  I could remove the partitions, but when exiting
fdisk the program would hang while trying to access the disk, presumeable
it was trying to erase the information about the partitions from the disk
and could not access it.  The drive light would come on for quite some time
flash off for a second and then come on again.  That is when I decided it
had hung...

When I try to copy, use dos more, delete, etc. on the drive I get the
standard error message you would get if you tried any of these commands
on a write-protectd floppy. ( except, that is for the copy; I can't
even copy from the hard disk to floppy.)

Any Ideas ???

Thanks in Advance.

Shannon Tremblay

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