Pendrive Write Protected

[midhun2014]

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.

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[Mellon Head]

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.

 

[rvcjew]

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/detail/a_id/2550/related/1/kw/u3 installer/r_id/101834