Drive Cannot be modified

I don't know what the heck is going on. All of a sudden everytime I drag a file from one hard drive to another, whether internal or external I keep getting a "Drive cannot be modified error" Is there a setting that maybe I activated or deactivated somehow.

Also I get a white circle with a line going through it meaning that I can't even drop the file on the drive or any drive.

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I'm running 10.4.0.7 on a Power Mac G4 with a builtin Iomega Zip 250.
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TOSHIBA
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