From all the articles I came across, the write protect / read only issue appears to be a widespread problem that happens to users randomly, for no apparent reason. I asked Larry if he would like me to connect to his system to have a closer look using my remote desktop support service, and he agreed.Īfter researching the issue, it appears that the Western Digital My Book drives use software called ' WD Discovery' to lock and unlock the drive, though I could not find an option to disable the write protection. I have searched for 'wd my book read only remove write protect' in Google but I can't seem to find the answer. Also, if I right click the drive partition in Disk Management, the delete option is missing. I have also tried formatting the drive with Windows Disk Management but it fails.
I have looked but there is no tab or switch on the USB drive to unlock orĭisable the write protect. I have tried formatting the My Book drive using File Explorer, but it tells me the drive is write protected.
I don't know what's going on but all my files on my external western digital 'My Book' are marked as ' READ ONLY'.
