Unable to paste onto USB Flash Drives and SD cards

[apurv21]

My laptop is not letting me copy anything onto USB flash drives. I'm using windows 7. I have already tried system restore and uninstalling the drive in Device Manager and Disabling write protection in the registry but to no avail. I am able to format the pen drive and also access files on it and copy files from it. But I am not able to paste files from my laptop onto the pen drive. It says "Destination folder access denied" and "You need permission to perform this action". I am running an administrator account. Also I am able to do everything normally in the case of a external HDD but again face the problem when trying to paste something to SD cards. I have taken ownership, run as administrator and also tried to drag-drop but to no avail. This not for just 1 particular file/folder. I am not able to copy ANYTHING to the USB and at the same time I am able to copy ANYTHING to the external HDD. Any solutions/suggestions?

 

[PcTestCard.couk]

Chispet controls the USB ports as well on the system.

I would suggest reinstall the latest laptop chipset driver and reboot the laptop.

If still the same problem, I would suggest back up the USB flash drive data and repartition and format the flash drive.
Just use the FAT32 format first.

hope this helps!
Bill
Tech Manager
Wptinc

 

[Dngrsone]

There is a hotfix that may help.

Is the USB drive formatted as NTFS or FAT32? Using FAT32 avoids the permissions issue.

 

[ibudde]

Ok, You should back up all the data on the sd and usb, then reformat them in FAT32.

 

[apurv21]

It is FAT32. The problem is not with 1 flash drive but ANY removable media.

 

[Dngrsone]

Try the hotfix

 

[JCB1]

run a chkdsk to check for file coruption