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Outlaweyes

Post subject: External USB HD switching to read-only

Posted: November 13th, 2015, 12:15

Joined: November 13th, 2015, 11:59
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Location: Texas

I have a Western Digital 500 GB "My Book" external drive (USB connection) hooked up to my Hewlett-Packard Pavilion Elite PC. In the last few days, I have been having an odd problem with this HD. It spontaneously decides that it is "mounted for read-only", and I can't write to it or create new directories. If I restart my computer, the problem goes away ... for a while. Anyone know what might be causing this problem?

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labtech

Post subject: Re: External USB HD switching to read-only

Posted: November 13th, 2015, 12:24

Joined: August 18th, 2010, 17:35
Posts: 3669
Location: Massachusetts, USA

High chance the drive may be failing. Check SMART attributes and read on those that seem to have problems.

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