>> I loaded a lot of pictures and videos onto this drive. I want to be able to let my kids use it to transfer the
>> pictures and videos on to their computers. Is there a way to just lock the pictures and videos that are
>> on this drive so they can’t mistakenly erase them? Thanks
Just do some more copies back and forth on the drive for a while. If you are lucky, the flash drive will write
protect itself (suddenly and permanently) while you are in the middle of one of the copies. It seems to be
a fairly common ‘feature’ of this family of flash drives.
Problem solved!