Remove read-only attributes from WD (Western Digital) disk

System Administration

  1. Right-click START and choose “Command Prompt” (run as administrator)
  2. Type “diskpart” and press Enter.
  3. Type “list volume” and press Enter.
  4. Type “select volume #”, where # is the number of the drive that’s giving you the “write-protected” error. You might be able to identify the drive by its size – your internal drives such as C, etc, are usually listed first also.
  5. Type “attributes disk clear readonly” and press Enter.