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Davehappen
May 20, 2022Copper Contributor
Write Protected
Hi all, I tried to download UBUNTU SERVER on an old win7 machine to try a go at doing a server. I used balenaEtcher to write the ISO files to an external hard drive, which is now write protected. I...
DevinZhang
Jan 19, 2026Copper Contributor
Check the physical write-protect switch on the external hard drive, or use the attributes disk clear readonly command in Diskpart to remove the read-only attribute.