USB write protected

[ElephantCrave]

So my friend kindly lent me his flash drive once mine had died a painful death however when I plugged it in we found out that it was write protected, I can't format it, regedit does not work and I have tried through command prompt, I have tried pretty much every method on Google and nothing works. Any ideas?

[DaftBehemoth]

Try formatting it in another PC. I've had this same issue come up and using my buddy's laptop fixed it. I can't explain why.

[ElephantCrave]

I shall give it a go but I tried it at college as well can't hurt to try again though

[helping]

Inspect it to make sure there isn't a switch, look it up by model too. Some USB drives have a physical lock that prevents it from being written on

[BigD1970]

Did it get locked?

[ElephantCrave]

No I can't see a lock, don't really want to to open the casing either

[Mooshi]

This happened to me before. I had to use some 3rd party software to unlock it and the files contained on it were a bit corrupted. I was copying data to it and all of a sudden it becomes write protected mid copy.

 

A few months later down the line, I figure I give that flash drive another chance and low and behold, the thing goes back into write protected mode mid copy. A 32GB flash drive that write protects around 6GB worth of data. Hate to break it to you, but that USB is a dud. Most likely it reached its write limit and goes into read-only mode for that reason. Pick up another drive, it's not worth messing with that one.

[ElephantCrave]

This happened to me before. I had to use some 3rd party software to unlock it and the files contained on it were a bit corrupted. I was copying data to it and all of a sudden it becomes write protected mid copy.

 

A few months later down the line, I figure I give that flash drive another chance and low and behold, the thing goes back into write protected mode mid copy. A 32GB flash drive that write protects around 6GB worth of data. Hate to break it to you, but that USB is a dud. Most likely it reached its write limit and goes into read-only mode for that reason. Pick up another drive, it's not worth messing with that one.

I think I was coming to that conclusion, I have already ordered another one, thanks anynway