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Whole Hard Disk become Read-only

May 21, 2006 6:36PM PDT

I need urgent help to fix my hard disk. After looking deeply into the problem, I found that my hard disk now only able to read the data off the partitions, but would not write any data to the disk. When I boot up my Windows XP, it just load for a while and freeze there, using check disk won't work as it refuse to scan. I couldn't even clear the MBR or reformat the partitions, not to say reinstall Windows. I tested the memory and it is not memory problem. I have no idea what is the problem, can anyone help?

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Whole Hard Disk become Read-only
May 21, 2006 6:38PM PDT

For your information, I am using a laptop and it is a notebook hard disk.

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Ask google about...
May 21, 2006 8:56PM PDT

NTFS PERMISSIONS

If one were to remove such a permission a drive could be read only.

Bob

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LINK about said permissions.
May 21, 2006 10:07PM PDT
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Sorry, forgot to mention
May 22, 2006 1:17PM PDT

Sorry, I forgot to mention that all my partitions are FAT32 file system, not NTFS...

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Link, comment.
May 23, 2006 2:00AM PDT