USB Flash write proctected!

[Susan]

Hi,

I am using Microsof Windows XP SP2. When I connect my flash 1GB
Transcand, it says write protected. So, I can not paste, delete or
format.

I have tried to format if from Disk Management and from command prompt
but it still doesnot work. I have no idea about it.

Anyone, could you please help me with this?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks in advance.


Yours sincerely,


Susan

 

[Paul]

Hi,

I am using Microsof Windows XP SP2. When I connect my flash 1GB
Transcand, it says write protected. So, I can not paste, delete or
format.

I have tried to format if from Disk Management and from command prompt
but it still doesnot work. I have no idea about it.

Anyone, could you please help me with this?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks in advance.


Yours sincerely,


Susan

See "USB drive appears to be write protected"

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html

Paul

 

[Susan]

See "USB drive appears to be write protected"

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html

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Hi Paul,

my flash drive has no swich and I also could not fine this path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
\StorageDevicePolicies. So, the problem should be the 3rd one.

Beside of this meant that, the problem could not be solved, right?

Thanks so much for your help.

Yours sincerely,


Susan

 

[Paul]

Hi Paul,

my flash drive has no swich and I also could not fine this path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
\StorageDevicePolicies. So, the problem should be the 3rd one.

Beside of this meant that, the problem could not be solved, right?

Thanks so much for your help.

Yours sincerely,


Susan

I don't know of a tool that can examine the spare block state
of a USB flash. In a previous case, someone was having a problem
with their USB flash, and I found a "repair" tool, but all it
did, was change the identity info returned by the USB flash,
without fixing it. So I'm not optimistic you can find
exactly the right tool to attempt a repair.

Since you know the model number of your Transcend product,
you can try here for a "recovery" or "repair" tool. Just
don't expect a miracle.

http://www.transcendusa.com/Support/DLCenter/index.asp

Paul

 

[Susan]

I don't know of a tool that can examine the spare block state
of a USB flash. In a previous case, someone was having a problem
with their USB flash, and I found a "repair" tool, but all it
did, was change the identity info returned by the USB flash,
without fixing it. So I'm not optimistic you can find
exactly the right tool to attempt a repair.

Since you know the model number of your Transcend product,
you can try here for a "recovery" or "repair" tool. Just
don't expect a miracle.

http://www.transcendusa.com/Support/DLCenter/index.asp

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Hi,

Thanks for your kindly help. I think I should return it to the
shop

Sincerely yours,


Susan

 

[M.I.5¾]

See "USB drive appears to be write protected"

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html

Helpful though that site is, the info on the life limitation of FLASH memory
is not entirely accurate (and I don't blame the author as this information
is not exactly given a high profile by the manufacturers). It is only the
housekeeping part of the FLASH memory that has a life of 100,000 erase/write
cycles. The memory cells that actually store the data have no such claim
and have a much shorter life. In general this shouldn't pose a problem
because the actual data memory is written much less frequently than the
housekeeping block (which is erased and written for *every* change to the
stored data). As the ewe-sieber site, states once the data blocks have
ceased to function properly, the memory can become read only. It can also
fail to function completely with a range of symptoms. The life of the data
block can be less or more than the average life with some extreme examples
of FLASH memory chips failing after a relatively few write cycles.

Since you have eliminated a write protect switch and a write protect
registry entry, it seems most likely that your USB stick has failed.

 

[M.I.5¾]

Sure. Unprotect the Flash drive. This is not an issue with the OS
but strictly your hardware.

Ask elsewhere

Indeed, you should ask in a news group with *hardware* in the newsgroup
name.

Since this is such a newsgroup a better plan would be to ignore our resident
****wit.