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Can't format USB mass storage drive

malkosas, on Wednesday May 28, 2008 12:05:53 AM
Hello,

I get a message telling me my USB key needs to be formatted, I click ok, try to format and I get a message saying , disk is write protected, the problem is I've been using that key for over a year with no problem, can anyone help please
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joemar, on Wednesday June 11, 2008 03:31:25 PM
i have a memory card. and its write protected, what should i do to format it. please help.
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salahsaif, on Saturday June 21, 2008 09:46:02 AM
i have flash disk Adata but i can't formated it and delet any file from it or copy to it
can u help me
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jack, on Friday June 27, 2008 03:08:19 PM
Some usb keys or flash drives have a little switch that locks it & makes it read only. Try looking for something like this.
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everlast, on Tuesday July 29, 2008 03:25:13 PM
thnx that wrkf fr mee.... LOL!
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ted, on Friday July 4, 2008 03:43:48 AM
damn. me too my usb said write protected i think thier virus
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Suren, on Friday July 4, 2008 06:39:48 AM
Hello,

I get a message telling me my USB key needs to be formatted, I click ok, try to format and I get a message saying , disk is write protected, the problem is I've been using that key for over a year with no problem, can anyone help please...

Suren
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KD, on Saturday August 9, 2008 12:32:26 AM
Cant format usb storage device , It reads write protected or it does not complete
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Rol, on Friday July 4, 2008 09:08:56 PM
Hi! I need a help please! My external hard disk can't be seen on my computer but visible on device manager. I know that it needs formatting but vista o/s is not posible maybe there's a way but don't know how. I've done formatting a drive with xp o/s & works when used on vista. I just wanna learn some other way with vista o/s a way of formatting a drive. Your expert advice will be greatly appreciated....
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toddus, on Wednesday August 13, 2008 11:38:02 PM
Control Panel - Admin Tools - Disk Managment - Wizard will (Init the Disk, Assign Drive Letter, and Format)
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 stebe, on Thursday August 14, 2008 08:03:28 AM
wow man, i knew it was lack of partition considering i accidently deleted the partition when setting up xp lol. just didnt know how to set up primary partition, it was all unallocated. thanks alot, works great now
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Eero, on Saturday July 12, 2008 11:15:48 PM
Try http://emea.apacer.com/en/support/downloads.asp

Keyword search: "AH320 LFormat Utility" and download it.
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Aruna, on Sunday July 13, 2008 02:07:23 PM
Hi,
My Toshiba 8GB USB pen is fucked up.
It was working well before and I pulled it out when windows was runing scandisk on it after a reboot. After reboot, the pen is write protected. No external switch.
The pen cant be written. Cant format. It says write protected.
I tried in CMD format command. It also says same. Please help.
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dusty , on Thursday August 14, 2008 01:47:06 AM
It was working well before and I pulled it out when windows was runing scandisk on it after a reboot. After reboot, the pen is write protected. No external switch.
The pen cant be written. Cant format. It says write protected.

Not sure but just out of curriosity Did you try to run a FULL scan disk on it again or even a defrag afterwards and then try to format it? I had this same problem on my Transcend 4GB and I did these steps. then it worked fine.
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yugo, on Tuesday July 15, 2008 08:06:18 AM
Hai,

I get a message telling me my USB key needs to be formatted, I click ok, try to format and I get a message saying , disk is write protected, the problem is I've been using that key for over a year with no problem, can anyone help please
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jermat, on Wednesday July 16, 2008 08:57:03 PM
I got this problem recently and I downloaded this software

http://www.apacer.com/en/support/downloads/AH320_Utility_LFo­rmat.zip

You should not have any other USB drive connected on your computer because it will format the first one it founds.
It worked on my Toshiba 4GB USB drive. First it said Formating failed but I just had to disconnect and reconnect it and then windows asked me to format it again... And now everything is fine.

Hope this will work for you
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raja, on Tuesday July 22, 2008 05:47:08 AM
i can't format pen drive
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Nietzsche, on Thursday July 24, 2008 12:07:59 AM
As jack said, "Some usb keys or flash drives have a little switch that locks it & makes it read only. Try looking for something like this".

I had this problem yesterday. Covered that place of missing (probably broken) small switch with adhesive tape, the same way used to do with copy protected floppies some decades ago, and voil� ! Problem solved.
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Maddy, on Saturday August 2, 2008 03:10:48 PM
Dude... Eera... U are a genius... that tool worked perfectly alright for me.... too good man... rock on... keep helping...
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tanmay, on Wednesday August 6, 2008 10:50:32 AM
hi,
i am tanmay i have a problem i con't format usb device
do you have any soluction then reply ans.

thanks
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