diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php
index 483c0b4261..dfb1394add 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Filesystem.php
@@ -678,10 +678,6 @@ class Filesystem
             $this->mkdir($dir);
         }
 
-        if (!is_writable($dir)) {
-            throw new IOException(sprintf('Unable to write to the "%s" directory.', $dir), 0, null, $dir);
-        }
-
         // Will create a temp file with 0600 access rights
         // when the filesystem supports chmod.
         $tmpFile = $this->tempnam($dir, basename($filename));
@@ -721,10 +717,6 @@ class Filesystem
             $this->mkdir($dir);
         }
 
-        if (!is_writable($dir)) {
-            throw new IOException(sprintf('Unable to write to the "%s" directory.', $dir), 0, null, $dir);
-        }
-
         if (false === @file_put_contents($filename, $content, \FILE_APPEND)) {
             throw new IOException(sprintf('Failed to write file "%s".', $filename), 0, null, $filename);
         }
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Tests/FilesystemTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Tests/FilesystemTest.php
index 77f780127e..5639c220c7 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Tests/FilesystemTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Filesystem/Tests/FilesystemTest.php
@@ -1751,6 +1751,27 @@ class FilesystemTest extends FilesystemTestCase
         $this->assertFilePermissions(767, $targetFilePath);
     }
 
+    public function testDumpToProtectedDirectory()
+    {
+        if (\DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR !== '\\') {
+            $this->markTestSkipped('This test is specific to Windows.');
+        }
+
+        if (($userProfilePath = getenv('USERPROFILE')) === false || !is_dir($userProfilePath)) {
+            throw new \RuntimeException('Failed to retrieve user profile path.');
+        }
+
+        $targetPath = implode(\DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, [$userProfilePath, 'Downloads', '__test_file.ext']);
+
+        try {
+            $this->assertFileDoesNotExist($targetPath);
+            $this->filesystem->dumpFile($targetPath, 'foobar');
+            $this->assertFileExists($targetPath);
+        } finally {
+            $this->filesystem->remove($targetPath);
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Normalize the given path (transform each forward slash into a real directory separator).
      */