My desktop (soon to be upgraded) is Win7 Home Premium.
I got the Steampunk Flash Drive (8GB) from ThinkGeek awhile ago, but have just now gotten around to using it. Trying to install PortableApps and running into a big snag.
10 The drive was initially read as 8GB. PortableApps downloaded fine onto the desktop, but when I try to install it to the flash drive I get sequential "Error opening file for writing..." messages and the only way to get rid of them is to either skip the file in question or abort the install entirely.
The drive now has a partial folder from PortableApps...I try to delete it and "This disk is write-protected"...how was I able to create the file then? Windows lets me format the drive, and reads it as 16GB O_o But it can't format it.
20 GOTO 10 Except now I can't write anything to the drive (but Windoze will try to format it only to error out and tell me it is write-protected). A different flash drive is fine, so I don't think it's (for once) the desktop. MBAM can't see anything wrong with it. I don't see any write-protect switches on the flashdrive itself...so what's going on? It's unbranded so I have no idea who the manufacturer is.
ETA: Ran diskpart to remove read-only...that seems to have workedand I'm now trying to format the drive againbut a formatting attempt gives me 'write protected' again. I found some evidence that BitLocker may be the culprit...not sure what triggered it. That raises the question whether or not I'll ever be able to use the drive normally or have to go through this each time (kinda defeats the whole purpose of a flashdrive then doesn't it).
I got the Steampunk Flash Drive (8GB) from ThinkGeek awhile ago, but have just now gotten around to using it. Trying to install PortableApps and running into a big snag.
10 The drive was initially read as 8GB. PortableApps downloaded fine onto the desktop, but when I try to install it to the flash drive I get sequential "Error opening file for writing..." messages and the only way to get rid of them is to either skip the file in question or abort the install entirely.
The drive now has a partial folder from PortableApps...I try to delete it and "This disk is write-protected"...how was I able to create the file then? Windows lets me format the drive, and reads it as 16GB O_o But it can't format it.
20 GOTO 10 Except now I can't write anything to the drive (but Windoze will try to format it only to error out and tell me it is write-protected). A different flash drive is fine, so I don't think it's (for once) the desktop. MBAM can't see anything wrong with it. I don't see any write-protect switches on the flashdrive itself...so what's going on? It's unbranded so I have no idea who the manufacturer is.
ETA: Ran diskpart to remove read-only...that seems to have worked
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