USB write protection issue

[MAK04]

Need help.......... I can't format my USB, I tried diskpart to format my USB but it didn't work. Anyone know what happened to my USB........

[Cluue]

First, check if you have any malware on your computer, otherwise try to launch cmd and see if that helps. It is most likely that it is a dead drive.

[WereCatf]

2 minutes ago, MAK04 said:

Need help.......... I can't format my USB, I tried diskpart to format my USB but it didn't work. Anyone know what happened to my USB........

The controller inside the stick has determined that the Flash inside has become faulty and has locked itself up. You'll have to buy a new one.

[Guest]

It may be a dead drive. A lot of USB flash drives will trigger a write protection mode when it exceeds a certain error rate. This is to allow you to retrieve the data that's on it before it completely fails.

[WereCatf]

58 minutes ago, Caroline said:

Have you used Rufus on it? if so, that could be the reason, unfortunately there's no way to fix it as it corrupts the partition table, you could try some recovery tools but it's unlikely they'll work

What the hell are you babbling about? A partition-table is just data like anything else you write on a drive and fixing it is extremely easy: you write a new one! Besides that, Rufus doesn't corrupt a partition-table: if you write an image to a drive, the partition-table will be whatever was inside the image!

[MAK04]

On 11/19/2020 at 12:44 AM, Grumpy Old Man said:

Make a new partition table (GPT or MBR), after that the stick will be formatted normally......hopefully.

i tried to make partition through CMD but nothing happend.......

 

On 11/19/2020 at 12:44 AM, Grumpy Old Man said:

Make a new partition table (GPT or MBR), after that the stick will be formatted normally......hopefully.

i even edit registry, it works but when i restart my pc problem occur again...

 

On 11/18/2020 at 6:53 PM, WereCatf said:

The controller inside the stick has determined that the Flash inside has become faulty and has locked itself up. You'll have to buy a new one.

i thing you're right i need to buy a new one.....................

[WereCatf]

2 hours ago, Caroline said:

Then what's corrupted? the whole drive?

I already answered this one: there's a controller inside the USB-stick, just like there's one inside (micro)SD-cards, SSDs and the likes and in OP's case, the controller has locked the drive permanently into read-only mode. They do this to stop you from writing to the stick once they've determined that the Flash-chips inside have gone bad so you wouldn't lose any data.

3 hours ago, Caroline said:

I've had a bunch of drives die right after using Rufus on them, drives that were in perfect shape are suddenly killed by that program, why? the partition table can't be rewritten and the drives show as "RAW", trying to format them spits the I/O error

It's just... odd, it can't be a coincidence

It is still a coincidence. USB-sticks are not exactly reliable, unless you buy really expensive ones and you've just been unlucky. Rufus, in and of itself, doesn't do anything fancy: it just simply writes the image to the drive and there are a billion apps to do that. Heck, it's like 20 lines of code to achieve the same effect, if you wrote your own C/C++ - app.

 

A partition-table is literally nothing more than just a small blob of data that lists the number of partitions, where they start and end on the drive, the partitions' type and any extra-flags they may have, like e.g. if it's a system-partition or if it's bootable, and, with GPT, the name of the partition as well.

[LogicalDrm]

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