I have a 125 GB flash drive that is read only and when i take that off then it goes to write protected. and goes back and forth between the two how can i fix it so it wont be read only and take the write protection off at same time. I have win 7 HP on dell Optiplex 3010 8 GB ram and 500 GB hard drive. i still looking on line for a answer. I have used coomand prompt as administrator and took the read only off then when i try to format then it say's it write protected.
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what kind of flashdrive is it?– NetworkKingPinApr 18, 2016 at 5:15
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Most flash drives will go into permanent write-protection to prevent data loss if it finds any issues in itself. This happened to me after I washed my SanDisk pen drive thrice. Or you may have used up all its write cycles.– Vishal BiswasApr 18, 2016 at 6:22
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In most cases the following steps will solve this kind of problem:
Open command line as an administrator.
type:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x
where x is the number of your pendriveattributes disk
If read-only is yes, type:
attributes disk clear readonly
source: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/format-write-protected-usb-flash-drive/
If this doesn't solve your problem, I suggest trying the Apacer USB3.0 Repair Tool