Western Digital External Drive Remove Write Protection

[R_M1]

How to Use the Diskpart Utility to Assign and Remove Drive Letters

This web site will show you how to use “diskpart” to reset your drive so that it is no longer in readonly mode.

I used the following to reset my drive. In a command prompt type:

1. diskpart
2. List volume (shows all your drives)
3. Select volume 8 (find the drive letter and use the associated number. mine was 8)
4. Attributes disk clear readonly
   that should reset the drive.

[ERmorel]

Hello,

Thanks for sharing this with the community.

Hope this helps other users.