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Flash Drive Write Protected

Shadow Gamer
By Shadow Gamer
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So, I'm trying to erase data on my flash drive, to store my backups on it, and it says it's "write protected". This happened recently when I tried to read some drivers off of it on my new PC. I don't know if something was wrong with the drivers, but they were downloaded directly off the manufacturers site. I tried to use a DOS commands(yes, I used the /f parameter), but the same thing happened, another "this disk is write protected" error popped up. I tried to format the drive, but that didn't work either. Windows also acknowledges that there is an error, so that is also suspicious.

 

Is there any way to take off a write protection naively in windows?

 

Thanks in Advance,

 

-Shadow. 

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Do you have Bitlocker on it?

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

Current Rig: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Abit IN9-32MAX nForce 680i board, Galaxy GT610 1GB DDR3 gpu, Cooler Master Mystique 632S Full ATX case, 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA and 1x200gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 LG SATA DVD drive, Windows 10. All currently runs like shit :D 

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