I rebooted my pc into safe mode with the drive in the slot, logged on as an admin and highlighted the drive without opening it. I've had exactly the same problem and after some serious messing around and hair pulling I got my drive working again. USB flash drive problem and how I made mine work.! The saves are in case it reverts at a later date, just double click (saying ‘yes’ to importing these to the registry) on all of the files and it will all work again! Save these to the same place as before as ‘StorageDevicePolicies00*’ My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\StorageDevicePolicies 001, 002) – for example: Everything is the same, just change ‘CurrentControlSet’ to ‘ControlSet***’ You also need to do this for the strings in any folders called ‘ControlSet***’ (* = any Digit, i.e. Then: File > Export > save somewhere useful as something like ‘StorageDevicePolicies001.reg’ ĝouble click on the string ‘WriteProtect’ and change the ‘Value Data’ box to ‘0’ *There seems to be some spaces here in 'StorageDevicePolicies' in the text above, there shouldn't be, OK*
My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies Single-click on ‘My Computer’ > File > Export > save it to the Desktop (Always best to have a backup!!) Start > Run > type ‘regedit’ (without the speachmarks) > Enter Here’s what worked for me (sorry for the *****’s Guide approach, but I used to :hotbounce hate it :hotbounce when I used forums and couldn’t understand what the technobabble meant!): The problem seems to be something to do with Microsoft’s SP2 :dead: ! OK – after an hour or so of faffing around :knock:, I think that I have found a possible solution.