How to disable write protection in the USB flash drive

usbwrite-protect

My USB flash drive is currently unusable because it somehow (quite suddenly!) became write protected. I have googled around and tried many solutions to this problem, but none of them have worked so far. Here are some of the solutions I've tried:

  • The drive has no tangible switch or button.
  • Formatting the drive won't work, even in command line, even "low level formatting", because the drive is (after all) write protected.
  • Changing certain registry keys to 0 doesn't seem to work.
  • Repair_Neo2.9.exe says "USB Flash Disk not found!"

One factor that may make it more difficult to find a solution: I have no idea what the make or model is, because I received the USB flash drive from my university as a gift. So if anyone knows how to find the make and model, that alone might be helpful.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Best Answer

Have you tried in linux version like Ubuntu/Fedora?

I had experienced this problem some years back and I plugged that USB flash drive in one of my linux live CD and formatted the drive and it worked well.