"Write Protection" removal

69Rixter · 05-17-2016, 12:45 PM

Afternoon sgosnell

I can't say for sure, but to the best of my knowledge NO it has not. As soon as I got the drive I immediately, prior to any use, formatted to FAT32. Today, I have my friends Linux (LM17.3) machine and hopefully Linux will be the cure for this aggravating issue.

THANX:
Rick

ondoho · 05-18-2016, 02:47 PM

if complete data loss isn't a problem...
i'd try to nuke the first few MB of the drive:

Code:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M count=10

has helped me before in similar (?) situations.
if that doesn't help, just let it wipe over the whole drive:

Code:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M

sdX has to be replaced with your usb drive, without partition numbers.