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How to format Kingston 4gb pendrive

Last answer on Oct 15, 2009 11:48:51 am BST sakcshin, on Jun 9, 2009 2:23:53 pm BST 
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Hello,
i have a kingston 4 Gb pen drive and when i connect it with pc it shows no disk please select disk first..
so what is the problem and how can i overcome to this problem..
thanks

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museum74, on Jun 9, 2009 3:10:56 pm BST
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Hye there,

Right click on my computer
Click on Manage
Then disk management
If you see your pen drive there,
Right click on it and press format

   
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ABUBAKKAR, on Jun 23, 2009 5:10:55 am BST
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Dear gentleman
My pen drive can not be worked .my pen drive insert to PC but THE DISK CANNOT BE WRITTEN TO BECAUSE IT IS WRITE PROTECTED. PLEASE REMOVE THE WRITE PROTECTION FORM THE VOLUME KINGSTON IN DRIVE\DEVICE\HARDDISK1\DR12. this massage

THANKING YOU

   
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vishalece2006, on Aug 12, 2009 10:52:19 am BST
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Hey can u plz help me ..............
i have 4 gb pen drive it is not formatting wen iam trying 2 do even its space showin is 00000. wat to do plz help me......................

   
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malii, on Sep 7, 2009 4:33:20 pm BST
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Hi, i have problem, kingston datatraveler 4gb, after fomat, i'm lost 2.3 gb,
can i have 4gb again?

   
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satishmsjp, on Sep 7, 2009 5:33:27 pm BST

You contact Kingston technical support center with all details of your pen drive.
you ask them for secure traveler utility and manual for your pen drive.
You must format your pen drive using secure traveler utility to correct your pen drive.

   
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sush, on Jul 13, 2009 8:28:28 am BST
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Please tel me how to REMOVE THE WRITE PROTECTION

kingstone 4gb pendrive

   
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shdiwah, on Aug 28, 2009 7:28:56 am BST
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How to format Kingston 4gb pendrive

   
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satishmsjp, on Aug 12, 2009 5:19:10 pm BST
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When you are specifying pen drives please do mention the model number, so that i can find a software which can
fix your pen drive

   
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sargam, on Aug 26, 2009 8:27:53 am BST

My friend i have a problem with my flash drive its showing capacity 7.96mb instead of 4gb and showing file system fat when i go for format it it shows the message cannot format it could u plz help me

   
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lexus, on Oct 5, 2009 2:54:44 pm BST

Hi Everybody,

I recently purchased a new Kingston 4 GB pen drive and I am having all kind of problems with it. Can you please send me a copy of the Secure Traveler Utility? I don't know the model number but it is a Data Traveler USB 2.0 with bar code number 6602656A.
I tried formatting several times with with Windows and other programs I read about on these pages without much success. Any other solution?
Thank you for helping!

Rahman.

   
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satishmsjp, on Oct 6, 2009 2:32:55 pm BST

Usually model number wil be on the metal part which we insert into computers usb port..just see properly.
secure traveller utility is only provided by kingston.. its not avilable as download from kingston's website...
you must contact the tech support for that utility with all necessary information they ask.... This wil surely solve ur problem.

   
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satishmsjp, on Aug 26, 2009 11:45:24 am BST

Hi sargam,
you please tell the model number of your pen drive. i can give you the secure traveler software, that works with your model, to format your pen drive correctly.

   
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mhaziem, on Aug 31, 2009 6:46:09 pm BST

I tried scan my USB Kingston Data traveller that cant format due to disk write protected error..

now i can solve the problem and format it just by using software as below :

http://www.technize.com/2008/08/31/smart-virus-remover-143-w­ith-usb-write-protect/

hope it helps..

   
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bigb786, on Sep 18, 2009 2:43:15 pm BST

Thanks a lot for your valuable suggestions about how to format.

Let me explain.
Some how virus entered and cannot access my pendrive.
properties shows. disk space nil and used space nil.
Thought to throw away the pendrive.
Ofcourse i would have done but
thought there must be solution for this/
searched through google and got your web page.
followed your valuable suggestions and able to access pendrive properly


LET ME KNOW ABOUT HOW TO CLEAN VIRUS
SPY007

   
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 Turbotom, on Oct 15, 2009 11:48:51 am BST
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This is the solution. No need to use a software :

"To begin with, these steps are to be taken if you use Windows XP and have administrative rights to your PC.

First, remove the thumb drive properly - left click the USB drive icon at the bottom of your PC and choose Safely remove USB Mass storage Device. If got problem, your PC might already got attacked by virus. Do a complete virus scanning with updated virus patterns later. If cannot dismount properly, you have no other way - just remove your thumb drive.

Click START -> Run... then type REGEDIT. You'll get an error if you don't have the adminstrative rights to the PC you are working on.

Hightlight My Computer (inside the REGEDIT not on your desktop) Click Edit -> Find... then type WriteProtect. Make sure you have a tick on each Keys, Value and Data boxes. Click Find Next. After a while, you should have something like this appears:


Now double click the WriteProtect and change the value from 1 to 0 (zero). Click OK.

Then press F3 on your keyboard to repeat the search for more WriteProtect data. Do the same for every WriteProtect data you found - change the value from 1 to 0 (zero). Press F3 again until a pop-up appears which notify you the search for WriteProtect is finished.

After that, close the regedit and plug in your USB drives and it should work normally - try adding a new file or deleting an existing file to the thumb drive. Else just reboot the machine and try plug in the device again.

Enjoy!!!"

Found on : http://aku-dan-x.blogspot.com/2009/03/remove-write-protection-from-thumb.html

   
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