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130 questions linked to/from What can I do if my USB flash drive is write-protected or read-only?
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What is the mechanism behind SD card's write-protection under MS Windows and how to deactivate it? [duplicate]
I have an SD card which I use in Canon EOS 700D camera. I cannot delete the files! I checked the basic things I know the operating system is using for this purpose:
The physical lock on the side of ...
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How to Fix corrupted pen drives during bootable creation process? [duplicate]
I want to re-format it and,
I have tried almost everything! tried diskpart method,3rd party software method, tried to format in safe mode, tried to format in ubuntu too... every time it shows same ...
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Windows(File Explorer,Disk Mngmnt & Diskpart) and MiniTool and sdcard.org's formatter are unable to format my memory card? Should i dispose the card? [duplicate]
I've tried formating my memory card using Window's File Explorer, Disk Management & Diskpart and MiniTool partition wizard and sdcard.org's sd car formater, no one touched my memory card, Should ...
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File recovery from FAT32 partition [duplicate]
In a nutshell: I have a broken directory that I believe is now inaccessible because of disconnecting during the middle of a file transfer and I want to rescue files from said folder.
So here's the ...
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dskchk hanging at ~50% when scanning a corrupt MicroSD [duplicate]
I have a SanDisk Ultra 32GB MicroSD that is clearly corrupted. I cannot delete files from it. Formatting fails.
I tried to run chkdsk r/ but it stops and hangs at about 50% after finding a few corrupt ...
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what programmatic changes makes the usb drive write protected [duplicate]
suddenly 32 GB sandisk pen-drive has become write protected, i want to know what makes the pen drive write protected, so that it I can figure out what is the right solution to make it work again.
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Cannot Remove Write Protection From My USB Drive [duplicate]
Today, one of my long used USB pen drive suddenly become write protected. Whenever I try to save or copy a file to it, it will popup and says "the disk is write protected".
So, I did some googling ...
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I guess there is just no fixing the "SanDisk cruzer glide 64GB" USB 'write protection' [duplicate]
I've tried for months to un-'write protect' this drive("cruzer glide 64GB"). searched and performed all remedies with no success. I've already backed up the drive but wanted, so badly, to ...
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Is this USB flash disk dead ? Can't write and reads only zeroes [NOT DUPLICATE - READ IN FULL] [duplicate]
This is an old flash disk that I have not used in a while. It was a small drive I was planning to use for TinyCore Linux. I plug it in, and it does not show up in KDE Partition Manager.
I query lsblk, ...
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Lost USB by dd-ing a bigger image on it [duplicate]
I had a USB flash of 32GB with actual size of around 28GB. I put an image of 28.5GB containing 2 CentOS partition, which has some free space at the end of it. I thought it will not harm my USB. But ...
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Possible USB pendrive hardware corruption [duplicate]
I have a USB pendrive, with 8 GB storage, and recently I tried to open (mount) it and wasn't able to ("bad superblock" error message). I tried to format it directly using dd and fdisk but no success. ...
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Can't Delete/Edit Files on SD Card [duplicate]
I have a Dell laptop (Inspiron 15 5559) and I can't Edit/Delete from the sd card reader.
I've moved the readonly switch to both places, I've tried different cards and is the same, what could be wrong?...
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USB flash not working after PC turned off while formating [duplicate]
So I was using Rufus to put a copy of Windows 10 on a USB flash drive. The power suddenly cut and after the USB flash drive stopped working.
I tried some solutions but they fail, is the damage ...
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I/O Device Error on hpv236w 64gb USB [duplicate]
When I try to access my hpv236w 64gb USB, it gives me this error:'F:\ is not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.' I can't format it too. I tried many steps ...
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readonly preventing me form removing readonly on file [duplicate]
So I recently tried to make a backup of my system (using veeam) to a USB drive but it crashed and now the USB drive seems to be corrupted.
I cant seem to fix it due to the files/drive/USB being ...