XP made hard drive "read only"

My friend was playing around and repartitioned a drive thru the Manage. He ******* up the size of the partition and fixed it, but now the drive is "read only" !!!

Took the drive out to a Linix box, repartitioned and formated and the drive is STILL "read only "! How can this be fixed???

TIA!!!

 

Since you have used Linux, I presume you have formatted it with FAT/FAT32 file system. Try to run chkdsk /f on the drive.

 

Drive was in XP and listed as unknown in the Manager. He partitioned there in NTSF/gave it a drive letter and the the disk became "read only ". He moved the drive to the Linix box and deleted/repartitioned and formatted (in the Linix box) and the drive was still "read only ".

That is the steps taken...