Vista - Disk Drive is write protected or Read only

Hi All,

Had issue that has been described here, where a disk in the system was
in read only. In my case this was a 250Gb Raid 1 array. After reading a
few posts I got onto the right track. Using diskpart to fix. However
instructions were brief to say the least so here is my CMD prompt
sequence (discovery hacking removed!)

In CMD box enter '*diskpart*'

DISKPART> *help select disk*

Selects the specified disk and shifts the focus to it.

Syntax: SELECT DISK=<N>

DISK=<N> The disk number of the disk to receive focus.

If no disk number is specified, the select command lists the disk
that
currently has the focus. You can view the numbers for all disks on
the
computer by using the list disk command.

Example:

SELECT DISK=1


DISKPART> *select disk=0*

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> *detail disk* (Note just to make sure I have right one!)

ATI 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 SCSI Disk Device
Disk ID: 1B665094
Type : SCSI
Bus : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status
Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- ---------
--------
Volume 1 D TwoFiftyRai NTFS Partition 233 GB Healthy


DISKPART> *attributes disk clear readonly*

Disk attributes cleared successfully.

DISKPART> *Exit*

Hope that helps
Robin


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