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I know this is a duplicate question, maybe triple duplicate or more, but I really cannot find a solution for this. My USB Drive wasn't write protected before, but something happened to it and now I cannot write to or format it.
I have tried in ubuntu to change the permissions, fsck, fdisk, dmesg | tail, mkfs -t vfat, hdparm -r0
and nothing works; all I get is Permission Denied
. I tried from GParted
but it also says it's read only
. I have also tried using Windows to change permissions, setting attributes disk clear readonly
, renaming the key in the registry, and tried a low level format.
But truly nothing works. Also, the stick doesn't have any hardware pin or switch for write protection.
Is there any solution to this or should I just give up?
Take a look and "Bear in mind that there is no guarantee that they will work for you: your USB flash drive or SD card may be corrupt or physically broken and no utility or low-level formatting tool will make it work again. The only solution in this case is to buy a new drive.": http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/storage/how-erase-write-protected-usb-drive-or-sd-card-summary-3633096/
– duDE – 2017-01-06T11:02:14.537Thanks for the answer. I have already checked that and didn't helped me. I know, otherwise if guarantee was valid for me i would never give back a USB with my personal data just to replace it. I really wonder though why that happened, because it wasn't physically broken or something. For real it just happened, that's why i supposed it can be solved. But i really doubt now. – akris – 2017-01-06T11:26:25.347
The solution is always the same. Get any data you need/can from it, then bin it or smash it & use another one. – Tetsujin – 2017-01-06T12:12:10.457
Unfortunately yes, the USB is useless now. But i still cannot understand how there is not away to fix that. At first i thought it would be just a chmod issue or something and not that big. – akris – 2017-01-06T12:21:50.677
What is the maker of your "a USB Drive" ? – Ale..chenski – 2017-01-06T19:18:15.460
It's a SanDisk USB. – akris – 2017-01-07T16:12:10.723