USB write protected?

[Selena]

i hope so. it took me a while of hesitation when i saw the description that included the word format or so... but here it is.

 

[Golden]

OK. If you right-click inside the F: rectangle, is there an option called Initialise disk or similar?

Or try and click the area to the left that says Disk 2.

 

[Selena]

well, as you can see - nothing like that in there. even when i clicked on properties, it shows zeroes in full or empty, but by color it appears as full...

have i really killed the disc with the killdisc?

 

[Golden]

Try click in area shown below - what options do you have there?

 

[Selena]

even so, i did click for sure on different places.

 

[Golden]

Mmmm. OK, one last attempt. Please try the following in a cmd window again: (note : we are using clean all instead of clean)

diskpart
list disk

(make sure the 60GB is still disk 2)

select disk 2

(make sure disk 2 has been selected)

attributes disk clear readonly
clean all

Now check to see if the USB is empty.

Regards,
Golden

 

[Selena]

well, i really appreciate your willingness to help me with this, but now it is really late here and i have things to do tomorrow, or actually today...
so thank you for now and i am going to have some rest. wishing you a good rest of your day. write to you later, perhaps

 

[Golden]

No worries. If that doesn't work, then I think that its likely that the firmware of the USB is not allowing us access, so there is nothing we can do. Only the manufacturer can fix that

Regards,
Golden

 

[Selena]

hopeless, where is the hammer?

 

[Selena]

how can the manufacturer fix that? will someone have access to my data after all?

 

[Golden]

Possiblt. Whta happens if you run ActiveKillDisk on it again? Can it access it?

 

[jumanji]

Hi Selena,

Take a break.

And when you come back try this as a last resort.

Download HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - CNET Download.com , run it as administrator and try to format your pendrive.

If it doesn't help, end of the story. Your pendrive is dead as a dodo.

From what I can perceive, most if not all cells are dead or killdisk has written zeroes. What files and in what shape you see/saw last, is what others can see. There is no way others can, including the manufacturer, retrieve any thing other than what you saw last.

So you can confidently return the pendrive for a refund/replacement.

Yet to satisfy yourself, download HDD Low Level Format tool (Windows executable not requiring installation) HDDGURU: HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool , run it as administrator and let it write zeroes in as many cells as possible. ( There is a rarest of a rare chance it will complete the task successfully, in which case you are lucky. Format using the HP Tool) The process of writing zeroes will take quite sometime. So do not sit in front of the computer. Go and do some other activity that will keep you engaged for a few hours atleast.

Have a good day/good night.

 

[Selena]

to jumanji:

thank you for a try, this is the result (hammeeeeeer!)

ok, i will send it back to the seller then for the refund... 20 quid is 20 quid.

 

[Selena]

to golden: I can give it a try, but I do not believe it will sort it out...

 

[Selena]

to jumanji again:

running the HDD thing, this is what it shows - I guess there is no hope for this thing...

 

[Golden]

Hi,

I would say its completely shot. If your data on it is worth more than the money you paid for it, simple smash it and throw it away.

Regards,
Golden