I have a Cruzer Edge 32GB usb and yesterday whilst transfering some stuff over to it, it all of a sudden come up with the write protetion error message and i want to know if there is a way to fix it.
thanks
I have a Cruzer Edge 32GB usb and yesterday whilst transfering some stuff over to it, it all of a sudden come up with the write protetion error message and i want to know if there is a way to fix it.
thanks
I have seen this issue once in a while. have you tried reformatting it?
Hi, i have this issue also. i have just tried to create a recovery usb stick for my new laptop and it failed leaving the stick ‘write protected’ the stick is a Sandisk Cruzer edge 32gb. is the stick now unuseable? i have tried reformatting the stick in windows in cmd/dos as administrator using the format /x command and also obtained a hopy of hp’s usb format tool yet to no avail. can you help?
If the drive is under warrantee return it for a replacement.
http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5232/~/return-material-authorization-(rma)-process
I have had this happen as well on several occassions the best way to fix it (if you are on vista/7/8) is to use diskpart, it is built in to all 3 of the windows OS that I listed.
2. type in “diskpart” and hit the enter key (no quote marks of course) it will open a new window.
type in “list disk” (no quote marks)
I dentify the number of the disk that matches your flash drive, on the example below mine would be disk 7
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
Disk 0 Online 465 GB 1024 KB
Disk 1 Online 931 GB 0 B
Disk 2 Online 298 GB 0 B
Disk 3 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 4 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 5 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 6 No Media 0 B 0 B
Disk 7 Online 14 GB 0 B
DISKPART> select disk 7
Disk 7 is now the selected disk.
once you confirm it has selected the right disk number; (example above, second line), type in " Clean" (no quotes), this will completly remove all partition information and set the disk up to be reformatted
at this point you can either create volumes/partitions and format it with diskpart or close diskpart and use your format tool of choice.