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| Thread ID: 125381 | 2012-06-24 02:14:00 | USB flash drive write protected? | dugimodo (138) | Press F1 |
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| 1283643 | 2012-06-24 02:14:00 | I have a Kingston DT ultimate G2 32GB USB3.0 flash drive which I use quite a bit. Today I had some trouble ejecting it, and tried about 3 times before the safe to remove message finally came up. Now it is apparently write protected and I can't write to it or format it but I can still read the one file that's on there. I've tried formatting from windows, from safe mode command prompt, tried chkdsk /f from both as well, plugged it in and ejected it a few times, tried another PC (both running 64bit windows 7), looked in the registry to see if the system had write protect enabled for flash devices..... None of it worked, I just get the write protected error message. Also downloaded a HP formatting utility but it fails also. Anyone know how to fix this? and no the drive does not have a write protect switch on it. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1283644 | 2012-06-24 04:36:00 | Being 32GB and USB 3.0 I can understand your desire to get it back. You will no doubt have googled but did you see this? en.kioskea.net | linw (53) | ||
| 1283645 | 2012-06-24 04:40:00 | Or have you tried formatting from Disk management or from the command prompt? | linw (53) | ||
| 1283646 | 2012-06-24 08:06:00 | yeah tried all that, still no go :( | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1283647 | 2012-06-24 08:17:00 | Have you tried right clicking the drive and click properties and uncheck read only(i think:)) | stratex5 (16685) | ||
| 1283648 | 2012-06-24 08:40:00 | Have you tried right clicking the drive and click properties and uncheck read only(i think:)) That works for files, not for usb sticks. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1283649 | 2012-06-24 09:21:00 | Have you tried right clicking the drive and click properties and uncheck read only(i think:)) Yeah about 10 seconds after the first error, and as Nick says USB drives don't have the option. I played around in the security and permissions settings but no joy there either. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1283650 | 2012-06-25 02:37:00 | Ok tried a few more things and still no joy :( this may turn into a recommend a new flash drive thread. Tried clearing the readonly attribute with diskpart which claimed to suceed but changed nothing, tried it on an XP machine, tried easus partition manager, E-mailed kingston and am waiting for a reply, might try linux next. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1283651 | 2012-06-25 02:57:00 | as root dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M Then make a new filesystem on it. If that doesn't work then it is probably stuffed at a hardware level. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1283652 | 2012-06-25 02:57:00 | Try this (www.techrepublic.com) and this (www.tomshardware.com) | Nick G (16709) | ||
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