Harddrive becomes write protected after true image home 2010 backup on win 7 ultimate 64bit
Not sure if anyone else has had this problem with the Hard Drive becoming write protected in Windows 7 Ultimate Full 64bit after running a True Image Home 2010 backup. Took me a while to figure out what was going on clearing the write protected status is easy you have to run dispart.exe
At the Prompt do the following:
Type in with out quotes "list disk" find the problem disk
than type in "list disk x" where x is the number of the drive.
type in "detail disk" if the disk has a read only flag you will need to proceed to the next step:
type in "ATTR DISK CLEAR READONLY"
this should clear the read only status and you should be able to read the volume if that does not work there is still another flag set this time on the volume steps are almost the in dispart.exe here are the commands:
LIST VOLUME
SELECT VOLUME x
DETAIL VOLUME
ATTR VOLUME CLEAR READONLY
Hopefully this will help anyone else that was having this problem also alert the developers that there might be an issue in true image home 2010 that is causing this.
What else do you have running on your system and what type of backups are you trying to do.
Are these internal drives, USB, Firewire, SSD, SCSI, GPT etc.
You are the first person to my knowledge to report this, so it would be interesting to 'suss it out'.
There is no reason for TI to play with the disk attributes.
>>You are the first person to my knowledge to report this, so it would be interesting to 'suss it out'.
Hello,
Actually, I have the same issue with a internal SATA 2TB HDD. This drive is purely dedicated to the Acronis Backup.
Version of TI: True Image Home 2012
Version of OS: Win 7 Ultimate 64x
I experienced several time this issue. Today, after 1 month without any problem (2 backups/day), the drive locked again. Unable to quick format !!
I had to hard format the drive.
So the next time (not so far I guess) I will try your solution.
Regards
Frank
Actually, I'm blocked again. My backup drive is locked and the fix provided by Scott Fannon by playing with the diskpart.exe didn't solved my problem.
I transmitted my report in a zip file but even after recall no answer at all from Anton :-(
So I had to copy my backup drive and hard format it again. About 1 time per month
I'm sure I alerted Acronis to your post the last time. It is very wierd that so far you are the only three people have reported this problem in the forum, so i wonder what is different about your 9and theirs) system to others.
Mudcrab one of the other MVP's, mentions that he has seen a similar problem when a disk has been converted to a GPT disk and then returned to being a basic one.
Are any of the posters with this problem using GPT disks or GPT -> MBR conversions?
That's not my case. I just formatted a 2Tb HDD in MBR. I never used a GPT disk.
I have a Kingston 64GB USB 3.0 drive that became read only write protected after using Acronis True Image 2014. I was trying to clone the internal HDD to the USB drive. I added the USB drive using Acronis TI. If I try to create a partition it gives me Sector 0 write errors. I had it plugged into a Dell Inspiron 3000 USB 2.0 port and I booted off of the Acronis Boot CD. I tried moving the USB drive to a Windows 8.1 machine but it is write protected there too. I also tried using Acronis Disk Director 11 but it also reports the drive as write protected. Is there anyway to use the Edit feature of Acronis TI 2014 to repair the drive?
The drive may have been accidentally partitioned as GPT at one point.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/52129-disk-clean-clean-all-diskpar…
C:\WINDOWS\system32>compmgmt.msc
C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.3.9600
Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: TOSHIBA-I7
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 698 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 58 GB 0 B
DISKPART> select disk 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of
an I/O device error.
See the System Event Log for more information.
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 698 GB 0 B *
* Disk 1 Online 58 GB 0 B
DISKPART> select disk 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> detail disk
Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 USB Device
Disk ID: 00000001
Type : USB
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : Yes
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 6 E RAW Removable 58 GB Healthy
DISKPART> ATTR DISK CLEAR READONLY
Disk attributes cleared successfully.
DISKPART> detail disk
Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 USB Device
Disk ID: 00000001
Type : USB
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : Yes
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 6 E RAW Removable 58 GB Healthy
DISKPART> ATTR DISK CLEAR READONLY
Disk attributes cleared successfully.
DISKPART> EXIT
Leaving DiskPart...
C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.3.9600
Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: TOSHIBA-I7
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 698 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 58 GB 0 B
DISKPART> select disk 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> detail disk
Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 USB Device
Disk ID: 00000001
Type : USB
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : Yes
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 6 E RAW Removable 58 GB Healthy
DISKPART> attr clear readonly
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.3.9600
VOLUME - Manipulate volume attributes.
DISK - Manipulate disk attributes.
DISKPART> attr disk 1 clear readonly
The arguments specified for this command are not valid.
For more information on the command type: HELP ATTRIBUTES DISK
DISKPART> attr disk clear readonly
Disk attributes cleared successfully.
DISKPART> detail disk
Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 USB Device
Disk ID: 00000001
Type : USB
Status : Online
Path : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : Yes
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 6 E RAW Removable 58 GB Healthy
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 D DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 688 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 2 System NTFS Partition 450 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 3 FAT32 Partition 260 MB Healthy System
Volume 4 NTFS Partition 350 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 5 Recovery NTFS Partition 9 GB Healthy Hidden
Volume 6 E RAW Removable 58 GB Healthy
DISKPART> select volume 6
Volume 6 is the selected volume.
DISKPART> detail volume
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
* Disk 1 Online 58 GB 0 B
Read-only : No
Hidden : No
No Default Drive Letter: No
Shadow Copy : No
Offline : No
BitLocker Encrypted : No
Installable : No
Volume Capacity : 58 GB
Volume Free Space : 58 GB
DISKPART> ATTR VOLUME CLEAR READONLY
Virtual Disk Service error:
The operation is not supported on removable media.
DISKPART>