Happened twice to me with Kingston’s DataTraveller series so this issue is not unique to SanDisk.
*Edit: I had to doublecheck that this was Sandisk’s official forum with the amount of moronic replies in this thread.
I’m glad sandisk’s policy is “throw it away and ask for a new one.”
This is laughable.
This is a waste of money, time, and effort.
I cant believe that there are 20 pages in this thread and the “expert” is responding with a bunch of smartass comments about how your data is PROTECTED PERMANENTLY and stuff.
Rediculous. Poor support quality and representation.
Dissapointed in this company now.
Hopefully WD will fix these issues since they bought SanDisk now since apparently they’re too incomptetent to take care of their customers themselves.
How hard is it to say “We don’t know the cause, we’ll exchange it, just put in an RMA request.” ???
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forum with the amount of moronic replies in this thread.
So you just had to add another one. Nice.
This Pen Drive has an average write speed of about 6 Mbps and reading speed of about 18-20 Mbps running on FAT32 . As few other reviewers have told please DONT format your pen drive to NTFS as this will effect the Cruzer Blade’s performance in a negative way! Previously I had the same pen drive (Cruzer Blade 16GB itself) which i had purchased from SP Road but after reading the misleading reviews out here i formatted it and the magnificent pen drive became ridiculous. The write speed became 3.5 Mbps but the read speed was not affected. Even after reformatting it to its original FAT32 format from NTFS, the read and write speed remained horribly the same.So kindly DON’T format it to NTFS. Pen Drive is very good in this budget, it works faster and no any problem yet, delivery was very fast at http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Blade-Flash-Drive/dp/B002U1ZBG0/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1447591826&sr=1-1-fkmr1&keywords=Sandisk+Cruzer+Blade+16+GB+Utility+Pendriv%28Multicolor%29
avkdoctor wrote: DONT format your pen drive to NTFS as this will effect the Cruzer Blade’s performance in a negative way!
I don’t understand.It doesn’t work,Sandisk has known this for years yet they keep selling a known defective product.In what can it become more negative?Does it turn into a snake and bite you?
sandisk cruzer facet 16gb write protected how to replace my pendrive.
What the funny answer perdrive going to ‘SELF PROTECTION MODE’ then why users are here.
how to replace my pendrive
http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5232/~/return-material-authorization-(rma)-process
This might interest you also: http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/54—how-to-fix-write-protected-disks
i buy a usb stick to transfer my files not have them stuck on a usb forever what a rubbish product and to think i bought the 64gb should of used my money to wipe where the sun doesnt shine. no method on various operating systems have worked to remove the write protection.EVERYONE ITS TIME TO MOVE TO KINGSTON they accually make reliable products. so any suggestions how i should destoy this piece of ****
couldnt of put it better myself i bought it to transfer stuff not have it stuck on there forever. i bought a 64 gb too what a waste of money my money is going to kingston from now on
To disable write protection on a SanDisk 32GB flash drive –
After much research, I have stumbled across something that actually worked!
Click on ‘Start’ –> ‘Run’ –> type in ‘regedit’ and press enter.
Search for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Scroll down the list and click on SYSTEM
Click on CurrentControlSet
Click on Policies
Click on Microsoft
Click on FVE
In the panel on the right side, if the values for either FDVDenyWriteAccess OR RDVDenyWriteAccess are anything other than ‘0x00000000 (0)’, right click and then click on ‘Modify’, then enter ‘0’ and press Enter.
Remove the flash drive and reinsert. You can now copy to or write to the flash drive.
I am using Windows 7 Professional SP-1 64-bit.
so any suggestions how i should destoy this piece of ****
If you work with the SanDisk RMA process http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5232/~/return-material-authorization-(rma)-process I believe they will allow you to destroy the Blade with a hammer and still be able to return it for a free replacement.
I don’t know if Kingston offers that kind of warrantee. But we will find out soon enough.
As for editting the Registry to fix the problem. that might be awkward if the drive is used on multiple machines, and could be impossible if the machines are the property of someone else.
Guys! I think I just fixed my Cruzer Blade 4gb!
I also had a “write protected” error tried to use MiniAide, HP USB Format tool, tried to do something in registry but no luck.
Then I’ve installed RmPrepUSB, formatted my pendrive and it’s seems to be working! My mp3 player recognize it and play music.
Here what i did:
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Install RmPrepUSB
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Select you drive
3. Mark “Set partition as non-bootable”
- In bootloader options select WinPEv2/WinPEv3/Vista/Win7/bootable…
5 Filesystem: FAT32
- And then press the Prepare Drive button
Give it a try before smashing it with a hummer!
@telect wrote:
_ Give it a try before smashing it with a hummer! _
Really? That’s a bit over-kill, don’t you think?
I think the problem may be OS dependent. Try running the cruzer blade within XP. I found it to work when I did but when I went over to Win 7 and higher I had problems. I have this theory there may be a virus causing it.
Check your sd card if it is a FAT32 format drive, then manage your disk management by going to Start menu, right click My Computer, click Manage and look for Disk Management. You can see there the drive of your SD card showing FAT32, right click the SD card drive and format (make sure you backup your files). Change FAT32 format to NTFS, thick quick format and wait when its done. That’s it, you now have a working SD card. Good luck!
Ok, Just Copy All Of the Files And Folders To Some Other Storage Device If you want to keep them. Then If Your USB Flash Drive Is Under Warranty And As You Said Don’t Want to Expose It To Others. Then You Should call SanDisk And As Fot an Exception.
On Damage USB Flash Drives. Then Thay May Tell You How To Make It Unreadable Before You Send It Back For Replacement.
I Read Some Where That one Person Did That And SanDisk Made A Exception The There Return Policy About User Adbuse.
Also I Have Taked A Look At This Write Protect Issue. It Not A Windows System Problem Or SanDisk Chip Issue, As The SadDisk USB Flash Drives Are Setup To Automaticly Go Into Wrire Protect Mode If Durring Writing To its Drive An Error Of Unrecovery Type, It Will Go Into Write Protect Mode. And At This Date And Time Your Only Option Is If Under Warranty Is To Return It, For Replacement Or maybe Refund ?
Talker1937
i found a fix to wright protec use a xbox 360 to format it and it well fix it i just done it
SanDisk are f*cking cunts.
No seriously. This is what you call built-in obsolescence.
For most of you, your drives have disabled the write access themselves, because - and that’s what this sh*tty company tells you - to protect them from data loss. It’s hardware based, you can basically not get around it. Or only with some f*ggo tool SanDisk has themselves.
My stick was working perfectly fine and the only thing I probably triggered was a GB written counter which caused the drive to shutdown. A drive just doesn’t go defect from nowhere. Also, why can I still read it perfectly and just not write to it anymore.
I call bullsh*t. So are the products of them.
If you’re lucky you just set a software partition or file system read-only flag. But for many people who participated in this thread, it’s the story I just posted. You lost here.
The only win you can get out of this situation is the experience to dump SanDisk products.
Oh, and stop censoring my badwords. If you want feedback, deal with it.
millitaryman69 wrote:
My stick was working perfectly fine and the only thing I probably triggered was a GB written counter which caused the drive to shutdown. A drive just doesn’t go defect from nowhere. Also, why can I still read it perfectly and just not write to it anymore.
Because this is the way flash memory works. There is a finite number or program/erase (write cycles) that can be done to a flash memory cell before it dies. When you get to a point there is no reserve space left for the controller to use for bad cells you can run into data loss issues if you continue writing to the device.
Reads do not cause wear on the cell so continued reading from the cell is not going to cause a data loss issue. This is why the controller locks it into read only. to prevent data loss. if you have a drive with this issue backup your data and contact sandisk support. If it is within the warranty they will replace it
Oh, and stop censoring my badwords. If you want feedback, deal with it.
Also you should calm down with the profanity. It is strictly forbidden in the forum rules and guidelines and can get you banned from posting here is you continue using this type of language in your posts. This is a forum for everyone and most people don’t want to read this type of language.
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