flash drive is write protected

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One of my flash drives has become write protected. I was trying to use the disk editor to un write protect it. Does anyone know which bit needs to be set to unprotect it?
regedit and reformatting wouldn't work.

Thu, 05/23/2013 - 19:20
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I assume it's not a flash drive with a physical read-only switch.

Does it not work to write to the flash drive from any OS or is it just Windows?

Have you tried doing a DISKPART "clean" on it?

Make sure to back up anything on the drive that's important before wiping/editing sectors or cleaning.

I usually just wipe the entire flash drive and reset it when they get screwed up. In the past, I've used the Linux "dd" command for this, but usually a DISKPART clean works well now.

Fri, 05/24/2013 - 17:17