How to format write-protected USB flash

I am herewith addressing all those who were and are participating in this thread and not the OP.

The OP here has been deliberately suppressing the facts and taking everyone here for a ride.

From the way he has answered my query or evaded a staraight answer all along, it is now very certain that this pen drive is a propreitary pen drive manufactured by Silicon Power . Some of their clients include AMD,Yamaha, Weblink, Lattice, Eaton etc.,

Instead of saying "I have such and such a pen drive which is write-protected and I want to repurpose it now and use it, he made it appear as a general consumer device making a fool of everyone here. And then he had the audacity to say that had I read through the thread I would have found the answers to my questions

"Do you have other pen drives and do those work as usual on your PC?

What about this 8GB pen drive? Does it function properly on another PC?"

Look at the reply he gave me.

Hmmm... I had many many months back dealt with another OP who had said "I have such and such a pen drive supplied to me by a software vendor and having copied the software to my PC and also having installed it, I now want to repurpose the drive and use it." While I don't exactly remember what transpired further (I do not remember what happened four days ago, leave alone months ago) what I do remember is that he found that the software vendor himself had given the antidote :) for that and he reclaimed the drive. Not all the propreitors are so magnanimous. But there is an elaborate process involved in finding the flash controller used in the drive and reflashing it with an appropriate firmware often with lots of modifications. While there are a certain group of adventurists who take it up as a challenge and do it, it is not normally possible for ordinary users.

In this case the OP had camouflaged everything and taken us one and all for a ride and does not deserve to be helped any further. I request the mods to close and lock this thread.

Exactly. And that is the advice I would have given had the OP been straight. Find out from the proprietor whether he provides the necessary firmware to reflash and reclaim the drive and if not forget about it. And this thread wouldn't have gone into 54 posts wasting so many people's brains and time.

Britton30 said:

As Rich said here this could be a USB drive which was produced for publicity and is locked. It may be a catalog of a company's products, or a brochure of some kind. Where did it come from?

No, I have bought that flash which was like any other ordinary flashes here (my locale) and I have formatted, read from and write on it many times before.
What is in my mind is I think the only solution that works on that flash is a hardware method.

jumanji said:

I am herewith addressing all those who were and are participating in this thread and not the OP.

The OP here has been deliberately suppressing the facts and taking everyone here for a ride.

From the way he has answered my query or evaded a staraight answer all along, it is now very certain that this pen drive is a propreitary pen drive manufactured by Silicon Power . Some of their clients include AMD,Yamaha, Weblink, Lattice, Eaton etc.,

Instead of saying "I have such and such a pen drive which is write-protected and I want to repurpose it now and use it, he made it appear as a general consumer device making a fool of everyone here. And then he had the audacity to say that had I read through the thread I would have found the answers to my questions

"Do you have other pen drives and do those work as usual on your PC?

What about this 8GB pen drive? Does it function properly on another PC?"

Look at the reply he gave me.

Hmmm... I had many many months back dealt with another OP who had said "I have such and such a pen drive supplied to me by a software vendor and having copied the software to my PC and also having installed it, I now want to repurpose the drive and use it." While I don't exactly remember what transpired further (I do not remember what happened four days ago, leave alone months ago) what I do remember is that he found that the software vendor himself had given the antidote :) for that and he reclaimed the drive. Not all the propreitors are so magnanimous. But there is an elaborate process involved in finding the flash controller used in the drive and reflashing it with an appropriate firmware often with lots of modifications. While there are a certain group of adventurists who take it up as a challenge and do it, it is not normally possible for ordinary users.

In this case the OP had camouflaged everything and taken us one and all for a ride and does not deserve to be helped any further. I request the mods to close and lock this thread.

Don't insult. It's your choice to participate in a thread or not.

carwiz said:

Ah, come on. I think we all learned something. :)

I didn't read through all 50-something posts but did the OP try to take ownership of the flash drive?

From Elevated Command Prompt: takeown /f <drive-letter>: /r /d y

Example: takeown /f J: /r /d y

thank you. But it didn't work.

Layback Bear said:

From my post #18.

Have I missed something.
How did this device get wright protected in the first place?
Is this device also copy right protected?
Has this device been encrypted?

Seem to me this device was not intended to be copied, accessed or formated using legal means. Somebody (owner) wanted it that way.

I would suggest that this applies here.

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6) No discussions of hacking someones system, network, password, etc.

It is a very very ordinary flash to be used for reading, writing, formatting and any other works like any other purchased flashes. I paid money for it. But it is damaged. when It was running on a video device I brought it out without safe removing it. I think it damaged the flash.