Guest lil' zen Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Tried a few softwares nothing happened.I have a USB drive that needs formatting, but I can't format it because it is write protected. Can anyone please help?? I have since tried like the Low Level Format, but it stopped halfway thru then the Neo 9 as well but it said it couldn't detect my USB when it was actually intact. Help?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangeman Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 If there's no button or toggle, try this: http://www.softpedia...e-Protect.shtml Tried it on my own and it works pretty well for turning Write Protect on or off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lil' zen Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Thanks!!^^ I will be trying that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yuer Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 I have the same problem with one of my USB drives. The one I have is Cenion DataStick Sport. After looking up (a while ago), I found out that that flash drive tends to have this problem. Once it gets to the "write protect' error, it is pretty much broken. I tried several programs before and none fixed the problem completely. One of them (can't remember which one :/ ) fixed the problem temporarily. Then after a while, the problem came back. I hope orangeman's recommendation will fix yours >.< mine is no hope. It works sometimes and sometimes doesn't. Can't rely on this one at all :[ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangeman Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Errors happen from bad removals to death messages but a higher quality NAND flash chip could mean the difference between an attempt at recovery and permanent loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lil' zen Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 It didn't solve the write protection...>.<" I thought it did but towards the end of the formatting it came out with the error thingy again... I thought it was the Vista problem so I tried it on the Windows 7 as well...but to no avail.. Still, thanks for your help orangeman ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggy604 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Ask a friend with a Mac, or Linux based computer to try to format your USB in Fat32, or NTFS or you can start your computer from a Ubuntu Linux Live CD which you can learn how to make at http://www.ubuntu.com/download . All you need is a CD burner and a blank CD-R disc to burn the Ubuntu Live CD to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EmanuelJars Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 I have a USB drive that needs formatting, but I can't format it because it is write protected. Can anyone please help?? I have since tried like the Low Level Format, but it stopped halfway thru then the Neo 9 as well but it said it couldn't detect my USB when it was actually intact. Help?? follow the steps 1.Open a new note pad file. 2.Copy this cd\ reg add “HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies” /t Reg_dword /v WriteProtect /f /d 0 3.save it as DISABLEWP.BAT 4.Then copy it to start up folder. When you insert a pendrive it remove write protection.If it becomes.Or simply use any software which fix this kind of problem.You may try LONG PATH Tool.It may help you.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest uniqboy Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Try using Diskpart: open command prompt Type ‘Diskpart’-> ‘list disk’ -> ‘select disk ‘ ->’attributes disk clear readonly’ ->exit Done! for details, check: tech-soln.blogspot.in/2013/02/how-to-enable-or-disable-write.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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