If you can figure out how to format USB stick that I have, you will receive a gift.
I have tried everything. I used special Low-Level format tools, windows tools, and what have you.
The drive cannot be formatted. The first person to suggest something that work will, as stated earlier, receive a gift.
Thanks for the help.
Also, this is all because it is write-protected.
It's probably bricked, flash memory does that sometimes
If it is really write protected, you can disable the write-protect with a little switch.
[editline]4th April 2012[/editline]
That switch also happens to be what write-protects the drive. Unless of course it's write protected by software. Which might be from windows itself.
Check the drive's security tab under properties, make sure you set write to allow.
[IMG]http://puu.sh/nXUH[/IMG]
[QUOTE=MC3craze;35434242]If it is really write protected, you can disable the write-protect with a little switch.
[editline]4th April 2012[/editline]
That switch also happens to be what write-protects the drive. Unless of course it's write protected by software. Which might be from windows itself.
Check the drive's security tab under properties, make sure you set write to allow.
[IMG]http://puu.sh/nXUH[/IMG][/QUOTE]
That is the first thing I tried. Also, there is no switch on this USB device.
If you have access to macs, i've had success in the past with misbehaving USB sticks by erasing the volume containing the storage partition, then the storage partition get's automatically re-created. You can do this with Disk Utility.
[QUOTE=cosmic duck;35435621]If you have access to macs, i've had success in the past with misbehaving USB sticks by erasing the volume containing the storage partition, then the storage partition get's automatically re-created. You can do this with Disk Utility.[/QUOTE]
You don't need a mac for this.
[url]http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php[/url]
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;35435940]You don't need a mac for this.
[url]http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php[/url][/QUOTE]
Didn't work. I think this is a lost cause.
[editline]5th April 2012[/editline]
Please continue suggesting things. It's would be nice to have because it has a lot of space.
I'm assuming it's dead. I have a flash drive that is doing the same thing, and the files on it can never be changed. So it's pretty much a permanent storage device now :v:
I have a 16GB CF card that isn't recognized by ANY CF reader, IDE or USB. And I even tried formatting it in a CF camers, but no luck. Gparted, BIOS, POST, Linux, and Windows all refuse to see it, but it worked fine before I screwed up a partition in Gparted.
Any advice?
This has always worked for me: [url]http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml[/url]
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