Windows Says Disk is Write Protected

[TonyMan]

The D drive (Samsung SSD) had all my Data - Pictures, Documents, etc. Cloned my D drive to an NVMe on a USB adapter, removed the SSD, installed the NVMe on a PCIE adapter, and changed its drive letter to D.

Since then I have two issues:

1. Windows says the D drive is write protected. I've tried a few things I've found on line, Diskpart, Registry edit, etc., but nothing changed.

2. After any restart, File Explorer does not see the D drive. I have to go into disk management and assign the letter D to the partition.

3. The maker of the adapter said, "The drive was cloned or prep previously using a different method as a result it will not see it correctly here. If Windows can see the files as write-protected, you can copy to somewhere else, wipe the drive by re-prepping it (initialize, partition, and format) and restore the data back." I could not format it in Disk Management, but was able to with AOMEI Partition Manager, but Windows still says it's write protected.

Any ideas appreciated.

Windows 11
MSI B450-A PRO MAX
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
C drive - Samsung 980 PRO 1TB
D drive - Samsung 970 EVOPlus 500GB (the write protected one)

[Steve R Jones]

Is there a CD/DVD drive? If so, change it's drive letter to E to get it out of the way.

Google-> "Take Ownership" and see if doing that helps.

[TonyMan]

There is no conflict with the DVD. It is F. I've tried the NMVe as D, E, P, and Q ti insure there is no conflict.

I also pulled the NMVe, put it on a USB adapter, plugged it into my wife's PC, and that said it was write protected also. Almost seems like a hardware issue on it. Very strange.

[Steve R Jones]

Google-> "Take Ownership" and see if doing that helps.

Were you able to look into this?

[TonyMan]

Sorry, I misunderstood that, will check it out today and report back.

[TonyMan]

The articles I found say to right click on the drive, then Properties/Show more options/Take ownership. I do not have a Take Ownership option in the menu. And I am signed in as administrator.

I found another one that said to use Command Prompt. When I try to direct to the drive, I get a response saying it's write protected.

[TonyMan]

Issue is resolved. I had also written to the manufacturer of the PCIe adapter. They said to initialize the disk using the diskpart clean command in CMD. I can now move files to it and it shows up after a restart.

Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.