Pendrive Write Protected


  1. midhun2014
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    windows 7 ultimate 64bit
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    Pendrive Write Protected


    Hi,
    I have a Sandisk cruzer blade 8 gb pendrive, when i used to create a bootable usb using windows iso tool an error occured and its showing write protected while formatting. I have tried almost all the ways to format but nothing worked.Hoping a solution.[IMG][/IMG]
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  3. Mellon Head
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    Win 7 Pro x64/Win 10 Pro x64 dual boot
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    My Cruzers are write protected, and I think it's done in hardware. Mine have a little OS on them that asks for a password, then unlocks the drive for use. For security reasons, I think that lock/unlock is implemented in hardware. I wasn't able to partition mine either.

    Thumb drives are cheap these days. Just pick up a non secured one to make a bootable drive.
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  4. rvcjew
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    Do you have u3 on that drive if so look at this to remove it and make it a "dumb" drive. http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/de...er/r_id/101834
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