u/Bhumit007

I am posting this with the help of ChatGPT because I wasn’t sure how to explain the situation clearly myself.

I have a USB pen drive that contains some very important childhood photos.

When I connect it to my Windows laptop:

• The drive is detected normally.
• Windows shows about 3.41 GB of space used, which matches the size of the photos that should be on it.
• However, when I open the drive, it appears completely empty.
• Microsoft Defender also shows a message saying it couldn’t resolve a potential threat related to the drive.

So far I have:

1. Checked Disk Management.
2. Confirmed the partition is Healthy (Active, Primary Partition, FAT32).
3. Opened Command Prompt as Administrator.
4. Ran chkdsk, but received: “Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write-protected.”
5. Used DiskPart:
   • list disk
   • select disk 1
   • attributes disk clear readonly
6. Received: “Disk attributes cleared successfully.”
7. Tried chkdsk again, but it still reported the drive as write-protected.
8. Created the registry key:
   • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
   • Added WriteProtect DWORD and set it to 0
9. Restarted the computer.

Despite all this, the drive still shows used space but no visible files.

My main goal is to copy the photos out safely. These are childhood photos and are extremely important to me. I do not want to format the drive or do anything that could risk deleting the data.

Has anyone dealt with something similar? What should I try next?

TL;DR: Windows detects my USB drive and shows 3.41 GB used, but the drive appears empty. The data consists of important childhood photos. Disk Management shows a healthy FAT32 partition. chkdsk says the drive is write-protected even after clearing the readonly attribute and changing the registry. Looking for the safest next step to recover/access the photos without risking data loss.

I am posting this with the help of ChatGPT because I wasn’t sure how to explain the situation clearly myself.

I have a USB pen drive that contains some very important childhood photos.

When I connect it to my Windows laptop:

• The drive is detected normally.
• Windows shows about 3.41 GB of space used, which matches the size of the photos that should be on it.
• However, when I open the drive, it appears completely empty.
• Microsoft Defender also shows a message saying it couldn’t resolve a potential threat related to the drive.

So far I have:

1. Checked Disk Management.
2. Confirmed the partition is Healthy (Active, Primary Partition, FAT32).
3. Opened Command Prompt as Administrator.
4. Ran chkdsk, but received: “Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write-protected.”
5. Used DiskPart:
   • list disk
   • select disk 1
   • attributes disk clear readonly
6. Received: “Disk attributes cleared successfully.”
7. Tried chkdsk again, but it still reported the drive as write-protected.
8. Created the registry key:
   • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
   • Added WriteProtect DWORD and set it to 0
9. Restarted the computer.

Despite all this, the drive still shows used space but no visible files.

My main goal is to copy the photos out safely. These are childhood photos and are extremely important to me. I do not want to format the drive or do anything that could risk deleting the data.

Has anyone dealt with something similar? What should I try next?

TL;DR: Windows detects my USB drive and shows 3.41 GB used, but the drive appears empty. The data consists of important childhood photos. Disk Management shows a healthy FAT32 partition. chkdsk says the drive is write-protected even after clearing the readonly attribute and changing the registry. Looking for the safest next step to recover/access the photos without risking data loss.

I am posting this with the help of ChatGPT because I wasn’t sure how to explain the situation clearly myself.

I have a USB pen drive that contains some very important childhood photos.

When I connect it to my Windows laptop:

• The drive is detected normally.
• Windows shows about 3.41 GB of space used, which matches the size of the photos that should be on it.
• However, when I open the drive, it appears completely empty.
• Microsoft Defender also shows a message saying it couldn’t resolve a potential threat related to the drive.

So far I have:

1. Checked Disk Management.
2. Confirmed the partition is Healthy (Active, Primary Partition, FAT32).
3. Opened Command Prompt as Administrator.
4. Ran chkdsk, but received: “Windows cannot run disk checking on this volume because it is write-protected.”
5. Used DiskPart:
   • list disk
   • select disk 1
   • attributes disk clear readonly
6. Received: “Disk attributes cleared successfully.”
7. Tried chkdsk again, but it still reported the drive as write-protected.
8. Created the registry key:
   • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
   • Added WriteProtect DWORD and set it to 0
9. Restarted the computer.

Despite all this, the drive still shows used space but no visible files.

My main goal is to copy the photos out safely. These are childhood photos and are extremely important to me. I do not want to format the drive or do anything that could risk deleting the data.

Has anyone dealt with something similar? What should I try next?

TL;DR: Windows detects my USB drive and shows 3.41 GB used, but the drive appears empty. The data consists of important childhood photos. Disk Management shows a healthy FAT32 partition. chkdsk says the drive is write-protected even after clearing the readonly attribute and changing the registry. Looking for the safest next step to recover/access the photos without risking data loss.

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