On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:35 -0400, m...@robertstech.com wrote: > Fortunately, it's my C drive, which contains only the operating system > (all my apps and data files are kept on a separate hard drive), so > it's just a matter of popping out to buy a new HD and reinstalling > from my backup. But I think I'll take the opportunity to do the > Windows 7 install while I'm at it.
If you do that and later find an external USB hard drive suddenly becoming write protected for no apparent reason, let me know. I just spent several hours Googling for a solution after this happened to my backup drive. Apparently it's not all that uncommon with Windows 7, with Western Digital drives seemingly most (but not exclusively) affected. A number of suggested 'fixes' came to light and I eventually found one that worked, although a lot of users complained that the fix either didn't work for them or turned out to be temporary. We'll see.... The most annoying thing is a the total silence from both Microsoft and Western Digital on what seems to be a surprisingly common problem. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
