USB Read Only Problem

**arclightfire** · October 5th, 2008

Hi, I have been using a little USB drive for some time to backup my work. Today upon using it I found the drive to now be read only.

I also use this USB on a windows machine at work.

I am using Ubuntu 8.04.1

Any suggestions?

**shamusl** · October 5th, 2008

I am having the exact same problem. I plugged in my psp and it now shows that it's a read-only device. I need this fixed.

**edyeeh** · October 11th, 2008

Try this forum.

>>>USB DRIVE READ ONLY problem.

**Glace** · November 3rd, 2010

For me to fix my read only usb drive:

mount your usb drive
open gparted (must be root)
find you're drive in the menu (try different selections in the top right if you can't see it)
right click -> unmount
it loaded for a while then next time I mounted it it was like normal

**sikander3786** · November 3rd, 2010

Sometimes running a simple filesystem check helps sort the problem. You can run it from gparted or see the man page,

Code:

man fsck

**ahalin** · March 30th, 2011

Originally Posted by Glace

For me to fix my read only usb drive:

mount your usb drive
open gparted (must be root)
find you're drive in the menu (try different selections in the top right if you can't see it)
right click -> unmount
it loaded for a while then next time I mounted it it was like normal

The gparted trick worked a treat, thank you. It took a couple of goes before Ubuntu and Nautilus saw the USB thumb drive (as there is no mount option in gparted I just unplugged it a couple of times), but it did.