i had just purchased a Sandisk CruzerFit 32gb flash drive to use as a USB troubleshooting/system repair boot disk - all I did was insert the drive and was about to format it and start setting it up when I noticed that there were files on the disk - some sort of Sandisk “Safe” utility, so I decided to copy that file on to my hard drive and was about to format the drive and I immediately got the write protect error.
so i sent the drive in, recieved the replacement, went through the format process, and it fails midway through with the write protect error.
I’m sorry but I have purchased dozens of other brand name USB flash drives and never had a problem like this, so the simplest solution is to just buy a different, less problematic brand.
