Write protected usb drive

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  1. Pasta88

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    #1 Pasta88, May 12, 2021
    Hi,



    I am not sure how my USB flash drive received a write protected status as there is no locking switch that i can see, tried formating the drive via windows 10 format and Aesus formatting software and neither worked. Does anyone know of a sure way to format a usb flash drive? If yes, plz let me know.



    TIA
     
  2. mdl052020

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  3. Super Spartan

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    :tooth:

    Post this on Wilders and mods admins cry like little girls deleting your post.
     
  5. Super Spartan

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  6. Pasta88

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  7. Super Spartan

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    No just saying, no one would understand that you meant EaseUS with that typo. Anyway, did you by any chance try do run a diskpart /clean command to completely wipe that USB stick and all its partitions? then try to recreate the partition?
     
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    #9 Sajjo, May 12, 2021
    @Pasta88
    Ebay purchase from the land of gold east of "who cares"?
    They do like to advertise "a lot more" to a "lot less".
    Check if size actually is correct first.
     
  10. Carlos Detweiller

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    #10 Carlos Detweiller, May 12, 2021
    Usually USB thumbdrive firmware switches the drive to read-only once its lifetime is up (spare sectors depleted). If the drive is old, that may be what happened.
     
  11. ch100

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    #11 ch100, May 15, 2021
    Winhex or other hex editor might be able to write on it 0s and wipe everything and from there you need a partitioning tool.
    A good and free one useful for USB flash drives is Active Partition Manager from Lsoft but there are others like BootIce.
     
  12. TigTex

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    #12 TigTex, May 15, 2021
    NAND based storage (ssd, flash drives) go read-only when they are in critical state. Backup your data and replace