"Write-protected" USB ports?

I have a very strange problem .. I used to have installed an application called REMORA USB Disk Guard which protects files on a USB stick. I deinstalled the program as usual and it all looked fine. I now have the following problem with ALL of my USB ports: when I plug in a USB mempry stick the device is identified by Windows, no probs. But as soon as I try to move a file from my PC to my USB stick it comes up with a message saying that either my USB drive is full (which it isnt!) or that I should remove the write-protection from the drive. Any help how I get get my USB ports back to normal again??

 

Some pens also come with a small switch on the side that enables and disables read write protection. If you have such a switch it may be worth checking out. Thought I'd throw this in since it's easy enough to forget such a small thing, if your pen has it.

 

Thanks for the advice, TonyT and goddez1

Couple of feedback comments ... I have tried to re-install (and deinstall) the beforementioned application about 3 times ... everytime it seems to install and deinstall without any problems or errors. Secondly I cannot find anywhere a seting which refers to turn-on/off said write protection within that application. You would have thought that any write-protection would have been deleted when de-installing the application. Lastly, I have tried about 10 different USB pen drives .. some do have those write-protection switches some dont ... trust me I have looked that this myself ... by the way, the whole problem has started since I first installed/de-installed REMORA. Before that all my USB ports were fine.

Still, problem remains the same at the moment, any other ideas (other than re-installing Windows XP again)?

 

Hello past1999,

Give uninstalling the USB root hubs a shot.

Uninstall thru DM and re boot - XP will re detect them.

Regards - Charles

 

Sorry, Charles, tried that but still the same result ... the USB ports are still "write" protected ... any other ideas, from anyone?

 

write protect

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308419/en-us
don't know if this applies ?

 

Hello past1999,

See if the REMORA software wrote to the registry entry mentioned in the quote and failed to undo when you uninstalled it.

From a thread here: http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/35725/?o=20

Regards - Charles

 

EUREKA ! It worked ... thank you so much Charlesver ... job well done!

 

Gratified that it worked and thank you for the post back, much appreciated.

Regards - Charles